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How do I extract column name of table in MATLAB?

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Can you suggest me a way to extract name of specific column of table in MATLAB?

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Michael Haderlein
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
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
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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