7.2 Referencing Row Subset Flags

If you have any Row Subsets defined you can also access the value of the boolean (true/false) flag indicating whether the current row is in each subset. Again there are two ways of doing this:

By Name

The name assigned to the subset when it was created can be used if it is unique and if it has a suitable form. The same comments apply as to column names above.

By _ID

The "_ID" identifier of the subset may always be used to refer to it. Like the "$ID" identifier for columns above, this is a unique integer preceded by a special symbol, this time the underscore, "_".

Note: in early versions of TOPCAT the hash sign ("#") was used instead of the underscore for this purpose; the hash sign no longer has this meaning.