Table event handlers - event.column "int & str" return type? + How to get edited column index?

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I need to know the column index so that I can use the index to update the underlying table, but the event.column return type, according to the info in the intelli popup, is an “int & str”. Not sure what that means?
What it actually is returning, is the column name as a str. Is there a simple way to get the int index to use with table.setValueAt, or am I going to have to use something dumb like
system.dataset.getColumnHeaders(ds), loop through it and find the index of the header that way?

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you can use both colName or colIndex to set value in a dataset

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That makes more sense. I was looking at the api instead of the user manual :roll_eyes: cheers

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Datasets also have a getColumnIndex() method.

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Note that internally, everything is using the index. So setValue using the column name is going to do a linear scan of the column names looking for a match. In practice, given how many columns a typical dataset has, this isn’t really a performance problem.