How to find the name of the first filed of a struct?
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I have a structre which has some fields. How can I find the field name of the first field?
Here is the struct I have:
struct with fields:
unpatterned_H_65_full: [17×34 table]
unpatterned_H_100_full: [17×34 table]
unpatterned_H_100_ribboned: [17×34 table]
unpatterned_H_100_ribboned_sectioned: [17×34 table]
unpatterned_H_65_sectioned: [17×34 table]
unpatterned_He_100_sectioned: [17×34 table]
I need to write a code that returns say " unpatterned_H_65_full".
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dpb
on 9 Feb 2020
If the struct variable is s, then
name=fieldnames(s);
name=name(1);
No way to write the second-level addressing w/o the intermediary/temporary variable comes to me for a one-liner.
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Walter Roberson
on 9 Feb 2020
Having names around permits you to examine additional fields less expensively.
In any case fieldnames returns a cell array of character vectors and indexing it with (1) would return a scalar cell instead of the character vector
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