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I have a table, "patients", with 5 columns. I would like these columns to follow the pattern determined by the cell, "order". How could I do this? Reproduction steps >> load patients >> patients = table(Age,Gender,Height,Weight,Smoker,... 'RowNames',LastName); >> order = {'Gender', 'Gender', 'Age', 'Gender', 'Smoker',... 'Smoker', 'Weight', 'Height', 'Weight'};
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John Michell
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Answered Aug 14, 2026
This can be done by indexing into the table with the "order" cell.
Note: Table columns cannot repeat names so "Age" will only appear once, and all subsequent ones will have the value "Age_1", "Age_2"...
>> patients2 = patients(:,order)
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