Display Format

By changing the display format of a column in a FITS table, one actually changes the TDISP keyword in the header of the CHDU. If the TDISP keyword does not exist, the entry field will be initially empty. A new TDISP keyword will be inserted when a value is entered and the Apply button pressed. If the TDISP keyword field is empty when Apply is clicked, a pre-existing keyword will be deleted.

The allowed forms of the TDISP keyword for standard FITS files are:

where w is the width of the displayed value in characters, m is the minimum number of digits to display (filled with leading 0s), d is the number of digits after the decimal point, and e is the number of digits in the exponent.
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