Calling data based on column name

Say In matlab app designer in a table app.UITable1 and i want to calculate the mean of certain column based off the name I type into a edit feild (text) that matched with a column name of a table, who would i accomplish this?

Answer 1

[Seth Furman]

You could do something like

mean(t{:,varName})

where t is your UI table data (assuming it is represented as a table type) and varName is the variable name.

Take a look at this link for more on how to access table data.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/access-data-in-a-table.html