Matlab's 'VariableNames' not accepting mix of numerical & non-numerical entries
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John
on 23 Jan 2017
Commented: John
on 24 Jan 2017
Suppose we have a 1x3 table:
A=table(1,2,3);
whose header names should contain a mix of numericals and non-numericals:
A.Properties.VariableNames={'from 1st-5th' 'from 6th-10th' ...
'from 11th-15th'};
This generates the following error:
'from 1st-5th' is not a valid variable name.
What I read through (and tried) already: sprintf function, whereas the formatSpec part was rather confusing. Furthermore I read about eval and would like to know whether this is helpful in my context.
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Stephen23
on 24 Jan 2017
"I read about eval and would like to know whether this is helpful in my context"
eval is almost never helpful in any context:
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Jorge Mario Guerra González
on 23 Jan 2017
Edited: Jorge Mario Guerra González
on 23 Jan 2017
It does not accept it because it has spaces and not because it has alphanumeric characters.
It will allow this, for example:
A.Properties.VariableNames={'from_1st_5th' 'from_6th_10th' 'from_11th_15th'}
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Walter Roberson
on 24 Jan 2017
"The variable names that you assign must be valid MATLAB® variable names"
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