[Martin Kaiser <lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus wrote ashish goel (ashish.kumar.goel1@xxxxxxxxx):

> I have defined some custom columns through preferences -> Columns. and I
> want the data of these columns to be formatted as strings not raw bytes.
> I have used VALS() function in my dissector code while registering fields
> and it is working fine in the packet details window but in the columns the
> data is not formatted.

have a look at packet-dvbci.c, search for val_to_str_const() and
col_add_str()

is this what you need?