# Export feature added: "splatting" structs into multiple columns

**URL:** <https://discuss.hail.is/t/export-feature-added-splatting-structs-into-multiple-columns/59>\
**Category:** Updates\
**Created:** [October 20, 2016, 6:23pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/export-feature-added-splatting-structs-into-multiple-columns/59 "2016-10-20T18:23:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 6:23pm UTC](https://discuss.hail.is/t/export-feature-added-splatting-structs-into-multiple-columns/59/1 "2016-10-20T18:23:18Z")

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We’ve added a convenience which allows groups of annotations to be exported more easily. In all export commands, you can now use the `struct.*` syntax to export all fields of a struct as separate columns. See that in the examples for export\_variants here:

[https://hail.is/hail/hail.VariantDataset.html#hail.VariantDataset.export\_variants](https://hail.is/hail/hail.VariantDataset.html#hail.VariantDataset.export_variants)