Enumerated column in tabular

Question

How can I have a column in a tabular environment so that the first column is automatically produced? Something like this:

\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{lc}
Step  & Comments \\
1st & a \\
2nd & b \\
3rd & c \\
4th & d 
\end{tabular}
\caption{}\label{}
\end{table}

Here I am envisaging that the first column is auto-generated and all I have to do is place an \item or some other iterator there. The first row is the column header. Any help getting started would be great!

See http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/21243/automatic-table-row-numbers — mythealias, Oct 15 '12 at 10:59

David Carlisle · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-19T13:53:44.877

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You can use the array package to insert a counter increment into the cell:

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{array}

\newcounter{mycount}
\renewcommand\themycount{%
\arabic{mycount}%
\ifcase\value{mycount}%
th\or st\or nd\or rd\else th\fi}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{>{\refstepcounter{mycount}\themycount}lc}
\multicolumn{1}{c}{Step}  & Comments \\
 & a \\
 & b \\
 & c \\
 & d 
\end{tabular}
\caption{}\label{}
\end{table}

\end{document}

edited Mar 19 '17 at 13:53

answered Oct 15 '12 at 11:00

David Carlisle

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Thanks David. Could you explain what part of the code makes the counter skip the first row? – tchakravarty Oct 15 '12 at 11:24
1

the \multicolumn{1} replaces the preamble template for the first cell by a simple c so it loses the counter code. – David Carlisle Oct 15 '12 at 11:28

Enumerated column in tabular

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