Table, delete columns with zero

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newbie9
newbie9 on 27 Aug 2019
Answered: Walter Roberson on 19 Jul 2021
I have a table with many rows and columns. How can I delete a column if any row contains zero? (I found a million ways to delete rows, but not columns, when dealing with tables.)

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newbie9
newbie9 on 27 Aug 2019
Edited: newbie9 on 27 Aug 2019
Got it; it takes two steps. First repalce zeros with NaN, then can clean it up:
table2 = standardizeMissing(table1, 0); % the 0 is the value to be replaced with NaN
table2 = rmmissing(table2, 2); % the 2 is for deleting rows; use 1 to delete columns

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 19 Jul 2021
N = T.Properties.VariableNames;
nvar = length(N);
mask = true(1,nvar);
for K = 1 : nvar
if isnumeric(T.(N{K})) && any(T.(N{K}) == 0, 'all')
mask(K) = false;
end
end
newT = T(:,mask);

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