How to extract column name of table in matlab

Can you suggest me a way to extract name of specific column of table in Matlab environment (as string)?

Answer 1

[Michael Haderlein]

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]); %from matlab help

>> get(t,'columnname')

ans = 

      'X-Data'
      'Y-Data'
      'Z-Data'

If you refer to table:

>> T = table(['M';'F';'M'],[45;32;34],...
             {'NY';'CA';'MA'},logical([1;0;0]),...
             'VariableNames',{'Gender' 'Age' 'State' 'Vote'}); %from matlab help
>> T.Properties.VariableNames

ans = 

    'Gender'    'Age'    'State'    'Vote'

[Pafi Pafian]

Thanks, T.Properties.VariableNames worked for me.

[Jason Burke]

Is there a way to get only the second variable name?

[Alex Whiteway]

>> T.Properties.VariableNames{2}

ans =

    'Age'

[PRABAKARAN KANDASAMY]

nice answer

Answer 2

[Vencel Kozma]

You could also use only these 2 lines:

excel_struct = table2struct(excel_table);
SelectedColumn_var = extractfield(excel_struct, 'SelectedColumn')';