description: Returns an array of short values containing the data in a specified column, provided the
column contains numerical data. Float data types are cast to short precision.
synopsis: #include ”SDDS.h” short *SDDS_GetColumnInShort(SDDS_TABLE *SDDS_table, char *column_name)
arguments:
SDDS_table: Address of the SDDS_TABLE structure for the data set.
column_name: A NULL-terminated character string giving the name of the column
for which data is desired.
return value: On success, returns the address of a newly-allocated array containing the data. On failure, returns
NULL and records an error message.