To read a cell array

To read a particular column of a cell array using the position of header name.

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

Example

A=num2cell(magic(5))
Col=3
A(:,col)

[sarfudeen]

how to access the column data in uitable.

[sarfudeen]

how to access the particular element in a cell array using strcmp

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

A=num2cell(magic(5))
t = uitable( 'Data',A)
% to read column 2
out=get(t,'Data')
col2=out(:,2)

[sarfudeen]

how to access multiple columns using loops

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

you do not need loops to access multiple columns

A=num2cell(magic(5))
col=[1 2 4]  
A(:,col)

[sarfudeen]

ok thanks how to multiply the two cell array column

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

which cell array column?

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

   p=cellfun(@times,col1,col2)

[sarfudeen]

have 719 X 2 cell, would like to divide or multiply the 2 columns within the cells

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

A=num2cell(rand(719,2))  % Example
p=cellfun(@times,A(:,1),A(:,2))

Or use @rdivide

[sarfudeen]

error occurred as 'matrix dimensions must agree'

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

There is no error with my example, post your code

[sarfudeen]

my code:

data = cellfun(@rdivide,meas(:,32),meas(:,33),'UniformOutput',false);

I have 60 numbers of columns in my "meas" file.

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

meas is a cell array or a file?

[sarfudeen]

meas is a cell array of type cell

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

In windows command type

whos meas

what did you get?

[sarfudeen]

Name = meas Size = 720x60 Bytes = 3112252 Class = cell Attributes =