How to give name to cell in variables column?
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I have .mat file having 12 cloumns , i need to give a column name to each of column in matlab how do i do?
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John D'Errico
on 1 Aug 2016
People come to MATLAB knowing only how to use Excel. So they try to use MATLAB as if they were still using Excel, and never bother to learn the capabilities of MATLAB.
Guillaume
on 1 Aug 2016
A mat file contains variables.
Actually, a mat file can also be a text file, in which case it could possibly have 12 columns.
I don't see the point and have never used the '-ascii' format for mat files, but some people on this forum seem to use it.
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Azzi Abdelmalek
on 1 Aug 2016
Edited: Azzi Abdelmalek
on 1 Aug 2016
columnname=genvarname(repmat({'col'},1,12),'col')
%or
columnname={'a','b','c','d'}
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Star Strider
on 1 Aug 2016
I would create a single cell array (vector) with the names. Save it as a separate variable in your .mat file. If you want to display your data with the names (I assume they are the columns in your array), create a table from the numeric array and the cell array when you load them.
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