Substitution tables and maps

There are a number of built-in script functions that can be used to retrieve or modify values in substitution tables and maps. Substitution tables and maps contain several entries (rows), and each entry contains two or more columns. The first column is the key, which is a unique identifier for each entry. The remaining columns contain the values for the entry (value 0, value 1,..., value N).

The major difference between substitution tables and maps are the following:

•	Substitution tables can be shared by several jobs and stored on disk. For more information, see Substitution table functions.

•	Maps are used only per job and cannot be stored on disk. For more information, see Map functions

Example 37

Substitution table.

In the substitution table below, alfred is the key and hitchcock and 1899 the value of the entry. The value consists of two columns, 0 and 1.

//!multicolumn! //key value 0 value 1 alfred hitchcock 1899