Fixed rcols has been pushed to git.  The new
wcols/rcols with 2D support will be available
in the next CPAN developers release.  No 1D
rcols or wcols were hurt by this development.

--Chris

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 9:58 AM, chm <[email protected]> wrote:
> rcols/wcols users:
>
> I just added support to wcols for 2-D pdls and
> discovered that it was not the inverse operation
> to rcols---which I think it should be.
>
> The rcols implementation uses dim(0) for input
> columns for the 1-D inputs, but dim(1) for the
> multi-column inputs.
>
> The wcols implementation uses dog on the 2-D
> input pdls and then does the original wcols
> output so effectively, both cases use dim(0).
>
> My thought is to modify the rcols 2-D support
> so that the columns in the file always to to
> dim(0) in the pdls.  That would be consistent
> with wcols usage and with the general idea of
> things happening on dim(0) and threading on
> higher dims---not that we thread with [rw]cols
> at this time.
>
> This also makes the rcols consistent with the
> original get_data() routine by Maggie which
> motivated the development of 2-D support.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>

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