# append Append a row to the table. ## Examples Given the following text file `cities.txt` containing cities: ```shell Canberra London Nairobi Washington ``` And getting back a Nu table: ```shell > open cities.txt | lines ───┬──────────── 0 │ Canberra 1 │ London 2 │ Nairobi 3 │ Washington ───┴──────────── ``` Add the city named `Beijing` like so: ```shell > open cities.txt | lines | append Beijing ───┬──────────── 0 │ Canberra 1 │ London 2 │ Nairobi 3 │ Washington 4 │ Beijing ───┴──────────── ``` It's not possible to add multiple rows at once, so you'll need to use `append` multiple times: ```shell > open cities.txt | lines | append Beijing | append "Buenos Aires" ───┬────────────── 0 │ Canberra 1 │ London 2 │ Nairobi 3 │ Washington 4 │ Beijing 5 │ Buenos Aires ───┴────────────── ``` So far we have been working with a table without a column, which leaves us with plain rows. Let's `wrap` the plain rows into a column called `city` and save it as a json file called `cities.json`: Before we save, let's check how it looks after wrapping: ```shell open cities.txt | lines | wrap city ───┬──────────── # │ city ───┼──────────── 0 │ Canberra 1 │ London 2 │ Nairobi 3 │ Washington ───┴──────────── ``` And save: `> open cities.txt | lines | wrap city | save cities.json` Since we will be working with rows that have a column, appending like before won't quite give us back what we want: ```shell > open cities.json | append Guayaquil ───┬──────────── # │ city ───┼──────────── 0 │ Canberra 1 │ London 2 │ Nairobi 3 │ Washington ───┴──────────── ───┬─────────── 4 │ Guayaquil ───┴─────────── ``` We append a row literal directly: ```shell > open cities.json | append [[city]; [Guayaquil]] ───┬──────────── # │ city ───┼──────────── 0 │ Canberra 1 │ London 2 │ Nairobi 3 │ Washington 4 │ Guayaquil ───┴──────────── ```