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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,ifitcouldbedoneinasinglestep.

Thanks

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share improvethisquestion askedDec9'11at14:32

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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01/04/2015 matlabExtractasinglecolumnfromamatrixStackOverflow

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>>datadata='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)%Extractthedataasacellarrayans=[0.9928][0.9887][0.9995][0.9982]>>cell2mat(data(2:end,4))%Converttoanumeric(typical)arrayans=0.99280.98870.99950.9982