parquetinfo
Return metadata for a Parquet file.
📝Syntax
info = parquetinfo(filename)
📥Input Arguments
Parameter Description
filename a string: Parquet file to inspect.
📤Output Arguments
Parameter Description
info a nelson.io.parquet.ParquetInfo object.
📄Description

info = parquetinfo(filename) reads Parquet metadata without importing the full table data.

The returned object exposes file-level metadata such as filename, file size, number of rows, number of variables, number of row groups, row group sizes, variable names, variable types, compression, and the writer description when available.

💡Examples
filename = [tempdir(), 'doc_parquetinfo.parquet'];
T = table(int32([1; 2; 3]), [10; 20; 30], 'VariableNames', {'Id', 'Value'});
parquetwrite(filename, T, 'RowGroupHeights', 2);
info = parquetinfo(filename);
info.NumRows
info.VariableNames
info.RowGroups
🔗See Also
nelson.io.parquet.ParquetInfoparquetreadparquetwrite
🕔Version History
Version Description
2.0.0 initial version
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