p5.js saveTable() Function

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The saveTable() function is used to save a p5.Table object to a file. The format of the file saved can be defined as a parameter to the function. By default, it saves a text file with comma-separated-values, however, it can be used to save it using-tab separated-values or generate an HTML table from it.

Syntax:

saveTable( Table, filename, options )

Parameters: This function accept three parameters as mentioned above and described below:

Table: This is a p5.Table object that would be saved to the file.
filename: It specifies the string that is used as the filename of the saved file.
options: It is a string which denotes the format of the table to be saved. It can be either “csv” which saves the table using comma-separated-values, “tsv” which saves the table using tab-separated-values, or “html” which generates an HTML table. It is an optional parameter.

Below example illustrates the saveTable() function in p5.js:

Example:

function setup() { 
  createCanvas(600, 300); 
  textSize(20); 
   
  text("Click on the button below to "
        + "save the Table Object", 20, 20); 
    
  text("Select the output format:", 20, 60); 
   
  // Create radio button for choosing 
  // file format to save the table 
  radio = createRadio(); 
  radio.position(30, 80); 
  radio.option('csv'); 
  radio.option('tsv'); 
  radio.option('html'); 
   
  // Create a button for saving the Table object 
  saveBtn = createButton("Save Table to file"); 
  saveBtn.position(30, 120); 
  saveBtn.mousePressed(saveFile); 
   
  // Create the table for saving to file 
  table = new p5.Table(); 
   
  table.addColumn('Invention'); 
  table.addColumn('Inventors'); 
   
  let tableRow = table.addRow(); 
  tableRow.setString('Invention', 'Telescope'); 
  tableRow.setString('Inventors', 'Galileo'); 
   
  tableRow = table.addRow(); 
  tableRow.setString('Invention', 'Steam Engine'); 
  tableRow.setString('Inventors', 'James Watt'); 
   
  tableRow = table.addRow(); 
  tableRow.setString('Invention', 'Radio'); 
  tableRow.setString('Inventors', 'Guglielmo Marconi'); 
} 
   
function saveFile() { 
   
  // Get the output format selected 
  // from the radio buttons 
  outputFormat = radio.value(); 
   
  // Save the table to file with the given format 
  saveTable(table, 'tableOutput', outputFormat); 
} 

Output:

Online editor: https://editor.p5js.org/

Environment Setup: https://www.zambiatek.com/p5-js-soundfile-object-installation-and-methods/

Reference: https://p5js.org/reference/#/p5/saveTable

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