Delete column from table
deleteCol(fptr,colnum)
deleteCol(fptr,colnum) deletes the column
from an ASCII or binary table.
This function corresponds to the fits_delete_col (ffdcol) function
in the CFITSIO library C API.
Delete the second column in a binary table.
import matlab.io.* srcFile = fullfile(matlabroot,'toolbox','matlab','demos','tst0012.fits'); copyfile(srcFile,'myfile.fits'); fileattrib('myfile.fits','+w'); fprintf('Before: '); fitsdisp('myfile.fits','index',2,'mode','min'); fptr = fits.openFile('myfile.fits','readwrite'); fits.movAbsHDU(fptr,2); fits.deleteCol(fptr,2); fits.closeFile(fptr); fprintf('After : '); fitsdisp('myfile.fits','index',2,'mode','min');