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Column Expression: Dynamically Extract and Define Type

Hi, picking up my original topic: I want to extract the column type to save this alongside i.e. a CSV file in order to once after reading CSV again, reinstate the original column type(s). Reason for that is that data might get shared / transmitted in human readable text files types. But, reinterpreting column types is time consuming and failure prone. I am trying to accomplish this by looping over the table of data types derived from aforementioned workflow. Binary Object org.knime.cor…