How to export headers from uitable to excel sheet

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Hello, I have a uitable using GUI with 7 columns (number of rows doesn't matter) and I'm able to import data to xls extension with a pushbutton. But I realized that the 7 headers are not imported. Thanks for your help! Here is my code:
data = get(handles.uitable, 'data');
filename = 'something.xls';
xlswrite(filename,data);

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Brendan Hamm
Brendan Hamm on 15 Jul 2015
Well the column names are stored in the 'ColumnName' of the uitable.
data = [get(handles.uitable,'ColumnName');get(handles.uitable, 'data')];
filename = 'something.xls';
xlswrite(filename,data);
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Brendan Hamm
Brendan Hamm on 15 Jul 2015
It may be that your data is all numeric? If this is the case then you need to convert it to a cell array to concatenate:
[get(handles.uitable,'ColumnName')';num2cell(get(handles.uitable,'Data'))]
If not please provide more information.
Adam Taher
Adam Taher on 15 Jul 2015
Finally I tried something like this and it worked. Thanks for you help:
data = get(handles.uitable, 'data');
datax = get(handles.uitable, 'ColumnName');
filename = 'something.xls';
xlswrite(filename,data);
xlswrite(filename,datax,1,'A2:G2');
That way, I don't overwrite my headers.

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