Can matlab functions return a table?

Hi, I am creating a matlab function and initializing a Table inside the function. I was wondering if I can return the (nxm)table with column headers as the return value of the Matlab function?

Thanks, Asghar

Answer 1

[Iain]

You can return a cell array. This is an example of one.

 cellarray = {'header 1', 'header 2'; 1 2; 45 76; 'Total' 78};

num2cell might be useful.

Answer 2

[Peter Perkins]

Asghar, in recent versions of MATLAB, there's a data type called "table". You may be asking about that. Here's a simple example of a function that returns such a table:

function t = createTable()
t = table(randn(3,1),randn(3,1),'VariableNames',{'X' 'Y'});

>> t = createTable
t = 
       X           Y   
    ________    _______
    -0.43359     2.7694
     0.34262    -1.3499
      3.5784     3.0349