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Missing spaces in uitable column name
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When multiple length spaces are included in the specification for the ColumnName property, they end up as single spaces which is very irritating. Replacing the cell array with a string array makes no difference. Is there any solution?
fig = uifigure;
tbl = uitable(fig, 'data', rand(4,3));
tbl.ColumnName = {'a1 1', 'a2 2', 'a3 3'};
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Jaswanth
on 6 May 2024
Hi Gordon,
When you specify column names for a uitable in MATLAB and include multiple spaces in the names, MATLAB's default behaviour is to condense multiple spaces into a single space. As a workaround you can use significant whitespace character which is char(160) for Nonbreaking space.
Kindly refer to the code snippet below, where Nonbreaking space has been utilized.
fig = uifigure;
tbl = uitable(fig, 'data', rand(4,3));
% Define column names with non-breaking spaces i.e., char(160)
k = char(160);
tbl.ColumnName = {['a1' k k k '1'], ['a2' k k k k k '2'], ['a3' k k k k k k k k k k '3']};
Please refer to the following image which is output of the code provided above.
![](https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/1687141/image.png)
Please go through the following MathWorks documentations to learn more about significant whitespace characters: https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/strtrim.html?searchHighlight=char%28160%29&s_tid=srchtitle_support_results_4_char%2528160%2529#:~:text=Significant%20Whitespace%20Character
I hope the information provided above is helpful in accomplishing your task.
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