MATLAB: Print content of a double to a table

Question

Hey guys,

I am trying to unite four cells in one table. Before I concatenated the four cells like A = [T, D ; time, Dynamics]. The two top cells (T, D) contain text or strings. The two bottom cells both contain 222×1 doubles. When I convert A to a table using cell2table(A) I get the following output:

Scans =
  2×6 table
        Scans1            Scans2            Scans3            Scans4            Scans5            Scans6    
    ______________    ______________    ______________    ______________    ______________    ______________
    'Time'            'Scan 1'          'Scan 2'          'Scan 5'          'Scan 17'         'Scan 25'     
    [222×1 double]    [222×1 double]    [222×1 double]    [222×1 double]    [222×1 double]    [222×1 double]

Is there a way two display the contents of the 222×1 doubles?

The reason why I need this is that I riqurie the first row of the table to contain these strings since the data in 'Scans5' do not belong to scan 5 but to scan 17.

Please find my code used in the following (don't care about the origin of the cells time and Dynamics):

b_1 = [1, 2, 5, 17, 25];
c_1 = numel(b_1);
D = cell(1, c_1);
for k = b_1
    tmp = sprintf('Scan %g', k);
    D{k} = tmp;
end
D = D(~cellfun('isempty',D));
u = sprintf('Scan %g', 1);
    T{1} = u;
Scans = [T , D; time, Dynamics]; %Time (1x1 cell and Dynamics (1xc_1 cell) both contain 222×1 doubles
Scans = cell2table(Scans); 
display(Scans);

Thanks for your help,

Best,

Sven

Answer 1

A column in MATLAB's table can hold data of a single type. If you want to use all values, then you cannot have the first row with char arrays. Try this

b_1 = [1, 2, 5, 17, 25];
c_1 = numel(b_1);
D = cell(1, c_1);
for k = b_1
    tmp = sprintf('Scan %g', k);
    D{k} = tmp;
end
D = D(~cellfun('isempty',D));
u = sprintf('Scan %g', 1);
    T{1} = u;
Scans = [T , D; {rand(222,1)}, {rand(222,1),rand(222,1),rand(222,1),rand(222,1),rand(222,1)}]; %Time (1x1 cell and Dynamics (1xc_1 cell) both contain 222×1 doubles
Scans = array2table([Scans{2,:}]); 
display(Scans);