Re: Is it possible to automatically populate and sort a structure?

Thanks for your responses, Aslak and Steven.

Steven, thank you for calling my attention to the second output of the sort() function; it is a lifesaver! I was easily able to order my list of Names using that output.

However, now that I have my sorted list of values (1x50 double array) and my sorted list of Names (1x50 cell array), and try the following command:

sortedTable = table(sortedNames,sortedValues)

This is the screen output:

sortedTable =

    sortedNames sortedValues
    _________________ _____________

    [1x50 cell] [1x50 double]

I can double-click on the name sortedTable in the MATLAB workspace to view the list in an awkward format (the entire list of Names in a single row, followed by the entire list of Values in that same row), but I can't seem to generate a neat, 2-column table displayed in the main MATLAB workspace. When I refer to the MATLAB table() function documentation, the examples are again rather simple, with each set of values manually specified (e.g. LastName = {'Smith';'Johnson';'Williams';'Jones';'Brown'};).

It would seem that the syntax T = table(var1, var2), as shown in the documentation, should produce the table I seek; however, I'm not sure why the screen output above is being displayed, instead.

Is there a way to create a nice-looking table from my two arrays, given that I can't manually list out the contents of each array?

Thanks for your insights.