MATLAB: Copying rows from one table to another

Question

I have a large table of data which I have managed to filter down to the particular entrees I want by deleting unwanted rows. I'd like to be able to create new tables off of this.

For example making a new table consisting off all rows in the original that have the entree X for field y.

I would like to use this with a logical expression such as

rows = table.Name == 'Smith';
vars = {'Gender','Height','Weight'};
newTable = table(rows,vars)

However when do this it informs me that "==" is not defined for cells. What is the correct way to do this?

Answer 1

strcmp(table.Name, 'Smith')

would do the trick.