How do I extract column name of table in MATLAB?
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Pafi Pafian
on 5 Feb 2015
Edited: MathWorks Support Team
on 5 Jun 2024
Can you suggest me a way to extract name of specific column of table in MATLAB?
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Michael Haderlein
on 4 Sep 2024
Edited: MathWorks Support Team
on 5 Jun 2024
If you refer to "table":
LastName = ["Sanchez";"Johnson";"Li";"Diaz";"Brown"];
Age = [38;43;38;40;49];
Smoker = logical([1;0;1;0;1]);
T = table(LastName,Age,Smoker);
>> T.Properties.VariableNames
ans =
1×3 cell array
{'LastName'} {'Age'} {'Smoker'}
>> T.Properties.VariableNames{2}
ans =
'Age'
If you refer to "uitable":
f = figure("Position",[200 200 400 150]);
dat = rand(3);
cnames = ["X-Data","Y-Data","Z-Data"];
rnames = ["First","Second","Third"];
t = uitable("Parent",f, "Data",dat, "ColumnName",cnames,...
"RowName",rnames, "Position",[20 20 360 100]);
>> get(t,"columnname")
ans =
3×1 cell array
{'X-Data'}
{'Y-Data'}
{'Z-Data'}
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Alex Whiteway
on 20 May 2021
Edited: Alex Whiteway
on 20 May 2021
>> T.Properties.VariableNames{2}
ans =
'Age'
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Vencel Kozma
on 2 Dec 2022
You could also use only these 2 lines:
excel_struct = table2struct(excel_table);
SelectedColumn_var = extractfield(excel_struct, 'SelectedColumn')';
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