Very often we need to work with tables (say extracted from unstructured data or some
kind of final report, timeseries, and the like).
It's inevitable we will be having columns that we can't know beforehand what their names
will be, or how many.
Also, we may end up with certain cells having values we may want to remove as we explore.
Here, `update cells` fundamentally goes over every cell in the table coming in and updates
the cell's contents with the output of the block passed. Basic example here:
```
> [
[ ty1, t2, ty];
[ 1, a, $nothing]
[(wrap), (0..<10), 1Mb]
[ 1s, ({}), 1000000]
[ $true, $false, ([[]])]
] | update cells { describe }
───┬───────────────────────┬───────────────────────────┬──────────
# │ ty1 │ t2 │ ty
───┼───────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┼──────────
0 │ integer │ string │ nothing
1 │ row Column(table of ) │ range[[integer, integer)] │ filesize
2 │ string │ nothing │ integer
3 │ boolean │ boolean │ table of
───┴───────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┴──────────
```
and another one (in the examples) for cases, say we have a timeseries table generated and
we want to remove the zeros and have empty strings and save it out to something like CSV.
```
> [
[2021-04-16, 2021-06-10, 2021-09-18, 2021-10-15, 2021-11-16, 2021-11-17, 2021-11-18];
[ 37, 0, 0, 0, 37, 0, 0]
] | update cells {|value| i
if ($value | into int) == 0 {
""
} {
$value
}
}
───┬────────────┬────────────┬────────────┬────────────┬────────────┬────────────┬────────────
# │ 2021-04-16 │ 2021-06-10 │ 2021-09-18 │ 2021-10-15 │ 2021-11-16 │ 2021-11-17 │ 2021-11-18
───┼────────────┼────────────┼────────────┼────────────┼────────────┼────────────┼────────────
0 │ 37 │ │ │ │ 37 │ │
───┴────────────┴────────────┴────────────┴────────────┴────────────┴────────────┴────────────
```
* Change path join signature
* Appending now works without flag
* Column path operation is behind a -c flag
* Move column path arg retrieval to a function
Also improves errors
* Fix path join tests
* Propagate column path changes to all path commands
* Update path command examples with columns paths
* Modernize path command examples by removing "echo"
* Improve structured path error message
* Fix typo
* Expand path when converting value -> PathBuf
Also includes Tagged<PathBuf>.
Fixes#3605
* Expand path for PATH env. variable
Fixes#1834
* Remove leftover Cows after nu-path refactor
There were some unnecessary Cow conversions leftover from the old
nu-path implementation.
* Use canonicalize in source command; Improve errors
Previously, `source` used `expand_path()` which does not follow
symlinks.
As a follow up, I improved the source error messages so they now tell
why the source file could not be canonicalized or read into string.
