Find column names with particular names in MATLAB table
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Dhruv Ghulati
on 21 Dec 2015
Commented: Peter Perkins
on 17 Feb 2019
Hi there,
I have a massive table with 408 columns in MATLAB. I want to get rid of columns that start with the word "connected". Instead of having to manually check the table and do something like
finalnbs(:,212:364) = [];
Where
finalnbs
is the table, how do I find all columns in finalnbs which start with connected e.g.
connected*
And then remove those?
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Walter Roberson
on 21 Dec 2015
finalnbs(:,strncmp(finalnbs.Properties.VariableNames, 'connected', length('connected')) ) = [];
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Renato Agurto
on 21 Dec 2015
Edited: Renato Agurto
on 21 Dec 2015
Hello
if "titles" is the first row of your table, then:
titles = finalnbs(1,:);
%Select the columns that should stay
idxs = cellfun(@(x) length(x) < 9 || ~strcmp(x(1:9),'connected'),titles);
finalnbs = finalnbs(:,idxs);
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Joseba Moreno
on 14 Feb 2019
Hello,
I have a similar problem but in my case I would like to remove the columns which contain the word "free".
How can I do that?
Thanks!
Joseba
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Walter Roberson
on 14 Feb 2019
With new enough matlab you can use contains() to test whether a substring occurs somewhere in a string .
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