MATLAB: Ascending table column labels

Question

Hello all,

I've got a table which contains 38 column's, each representing one cycle. I want to label them "cycle 1", "cycle 2", etc.

I tried something like this, but this doesn't work. Any help would be appreciated, thank you!

colnames = "Cycle" + 1:size(matrix,2);
table = array2table(matrix,'VariableNames', colnames);

Answer 1

Use the compose function (R2016b and later versions):

colnames = compose("Cycle %d", 1:size(matrix,2));

Alternatively, use the sprintfc (undocumented) function:

colnames = sprintfc("Cycle %d", 1:size(matrix,2));

No loop necessary.