how to substitute, in a table, variable names with the values of a vector

i have a table of 6 colums U and each colums have its title (Nation, valueA, valueB, valueC, valueD, valueE). I want to substitute the last 5 colums names with the numbers contained in the vector X.

X = [1 2 3 4 5 ]

U is 20x6

Answer 1

[Sajid Afaque]

for num = 2:5
    table_name.Properties.VariableNames(num) = {'New substitute name here in this case X(num-1)'};
end

[Francesco Grechi]

i think that could be a good idea however if i put:

table_name.Properties.VariableNames(num) = {'X(num-1)'};

i got the following error (because matlab doesn't accept the ''):-->

'X(num-1)' is not a valid table variable name. See the documentation for isvarname or matlab.lang.makeValidName for more information.

[Steven Lord]

The ability to specify table variable names that are not valid MATLAB identifiers was introduced in release R2019b. Prior to that all table variable names had to be valid MATLAB identifiers (as per the isvarname function.)

T = array2table(magic(4))

T = 4×4 table
    Var1    Var2    Var3    Var4
    ____    ____    ____    ____

     16       2       3      13 
      5      11      10       8 
      9       7       6      12 
      4      14      15       1 

newVariableNames = {'aardvark', 'baboon', 'camel', 'dog'};
T.Properties.VariableNames = newVariableNames

T = 4×4 table
    aardvark    baboon    camel    dog
    ________    ______    _____    ___

       16          2        3      13 
        5         11       10       8 
        9          7        6      12 
        4         14       15       1