# Copy a table out

Publish / memory

hand the table to memory or the clipboard

Page: <https://meridian.online/operations/copy-a-table-out>

## Status

Not built yet.

arcform does not do this yet; it would live in Brightfield's view. [Its place on the roadmap](https://meridian.online/roadmap#copy-a-table-out)

## Variants

- Copy to the clipboard: Copy a cell, column, row or selection to the system clipboard.
- Hand the table to another library: Convert the table into in-memory objects, such as an Arrow table, a data frame or Python values.

## What other tools call it

Meridian's classification; an independent blind rating agreed on 86.2% of 312 rows (exact class, version 2).

- Polars: [`DataFrame export to in-memory objects (family)`](https://docs.pola.rs/api/python/stable/reference/dataframe/export.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- Polars: [`DataFrame row and column accessors (family)`](https://docs.pola.rs/api/python/stable/reference/dataframe/modify_select.html) (read 2026-09-27)
- VisiData: [`syscopy-cell`](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/7609212ec2febafa9caba7183cbebfaf49627909/visidata/clipboard.py#L222) (read 2026-09-23)
- VisiData: [`syscopy-cells`](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/7609212ec2febafa9caba7183cbebfaf49627909/visidata/clipboard.py#L224) (read 2026-09-23)
- VisiData: [`syscopy-colname`](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/7609212ec2febafa9caba7183cbebfaf49627909/visidata/clipboard.py#L223) (read 2026-09-23)
- VisiData: [`syscopy-row`](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/7609212ec2febafa9caba7183cbebfaf49627909/visidata/clipboard.py#L219) (read 2026-09-23)
- VisiData: [`syscopy-selected`](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/blob/7609212ec2febafa9caba7183cbebfaf49627909/visidata/clipboard.py#L221) (read 2026-09-23)