How can I load just one column of a table into the memory?

I have tables which are saved in .mat files with one table per file. The tables are too big for the memory or it would take a lot of time to load the whole table so I want to load just the part I need. Thanks for help

[Adam]

doc matfile

should help, though depends if you mean actual tables as I don't know if they are supported form partial indexing into a matfile.

[Stephen23]

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/matfile.html

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

A=rand(10000,1)
save file A

If you want to load a part of A

clear
s=matfile(file)
out=s.A(1:20,1)