How do I extract column name of table in MATLAB?

Can you suggest me a way to extract name of specific column of table in MATLAB?

Answer 1

[Michael Haderlein]

If you refer to "table": 

LastName = ["Sanchez";"Johnson";"Li";"Diaz";"Brown"]; 
Age = [38;43;38;40;49]; 
Smoker = logical([1;0;1;0;1]); 
T = table(LastName,Age,Smoker); 

>> T.Properties.VariableNames 

ans =
  1×3 cell array
    {'LastName'}    {'Age'}    {'Smoker'}

>> T.Properties.VariableNames{2} 

ans =
    'Age'

If you refer to "uitable":

f = figure("Position",[200 200 400 150]); 
dat = rand(3);  
cnames = ["X-Data","Y-Data","Z-Data"]; 
rnames = ["First","Second","Third"]; 
t = uitable("Parent",f, "Data",dat, "ColumnName",cnames,...  
            "RowName",rnames, "Position",[20 20 360 100]);

>> get(t,"columnname") 

ans =
  3×1 cell array
    {'X-Data'}
    {'Y-Data'}
    {'Z-Data'}

[Pafi Pafian]

Thanks, T.Properties.VariableNames worked for me.

[Jason Burke]

Is there a way to get only the second variable name?

[Alex Whiteway]

>> T.Properties.VariableNames{2}

ans =

    'Age'

[PRABAKARAN KANDASAMY]

nice answer

Answer 2

[Vencel Kozma]

You could also use only these 2 lines:

excel_struct = table2struct(excel_table);
SelectedColumn_var = extractfield(excel_struct, 'SelectedColumn')';