From 2b9b71f62d86be7595ea4244890fae644aa1c9bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Darren Schroeder <343840+fdncred@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 07:23:37 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] added get-column

---
 stdlib_candidate/get-column.nu | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/stdlib_candidate/get-column.nu b/stdlib_candidate/get-column.nu
index 9f5def4..988e086 100644
--- a/stdlib_candidate/get-column.nu
+++ b/stdlib_candidate/get-column.nu
@@ -1,7 +1,26 @@
-# This is a wrapper to get a row
+# Documentation for get-col
+# Written on 2021-03-28 06:58:50 by andras_io on discord
 def get-col [
-    col_name:any # A 0 indexed row
+     col_index:int # A 0 indexed col_index
     ] {
 
-    get $col_name
-}
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+    # meant to be used like `ls | get-col 1`
+    # ls | select $(ls | get | nth 2)
+    
+    each {
+        echo $it | select $(echo $it | get | nth $col_index)
+    }
+}
+
+# Documentation for get-col2
+# Written on 2021-03-28 07:00:24 by johng on discord
+def get-column [
+     col_index:int # A 0 indexed col_index
+    ] {
+
+    # meant to be used like `ls | get-column 1`
+    pivot | nth $col_index | pivot | get Column1 | skip
+}
+
+# another working example is
+# ls | keep 2 | drop column 3
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