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Extractasinglecolumnfromamatrix
IhaveamatrixgeneratedfromtheprogramwritteninMatlabsomethinglikethis:

'A''B''C''D''E'
[4][1][0.9837][0.9928][0.9928]
[4][1][0.9995][0.9887][0.9995]
[4][1][0.9982][0.9995][0.9995]
[4][1][0.9959][0.9982][0.9887]

Iamtryingtoextractthecolumn 'D' withouttheheader'D'.

Icanputintoatemporaryvariableandthenextractthecolumndata.ButIamwondering,ifitcouldbe
doneinasinglestep.
Thanks
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Canyoutellmethetypeofyourdata?E.g. whos(foo) alexplanationDec9'11at14:38

Itsacellmatrix Kiran Dec9'11at14:41
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Ifyourvariableis data ,then data(2:end,4) shoulddoit.

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matlabExtractasinglecolumnfromamatrixStackOverflow

>>data
data=
'A''B''C''D''E'
[4][1][0.9837][0.9928][0.9928]
[4][1][0.9995][0.9887][0.9995]
[4][1][0.9982][0.9995][0.9995]
[4][1][0.9959][0.9982][0.9887]
>>data(2:end,4)%Extractthedataasacellarray
ans=
[0.9928]
[0.9887]
[0.9995]
[0.9982]
>>cell2mat(data(2:end,4))%Converttoanumeric(typical)array
ans=
0.9928
0.9887
0.9995
0.9982

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