MATLAB: How to Keep Rows and Columns headers when applying matrix Operation in matlab

Question

dear experienced:

I have dataset stored in matlab, which contain 100+ rows (instances) and 20 columns (features), i have read data used

A= xlsread(filename);

when i need to apply such operation like :

 Anorm =normc(A) [ normalized matrix of original matrix A]

then when i write normalized matrix, i would to keep the rows and columns headers as its in original matrix, following image just show an example used to explain my instances names and variable names.

My question: how we can apply such previous functions and keep rows and columns headers of matrix?

example of input .. and output matrix ..

Answer 1

That is not a dataset variable. num is a double matrix, and txt and raw are cell arrays.

You can transpose any of them. But what does it mean to compute the distance transform of a cell array of strings? Or of a cell array?