How to find table column number by column name?

I have a Table in MATLAB, suppose the table is A of dimensions 21392x1970. There are 1970 columns in table A, as evident. There is a column named "Temperature" and I would like to find out the column number of that column eg. between 1-1970 which value in my table. How can I find the column number of a MATLAB table column by specifying the name of the column? Any help in this regard would be highly appreciated. Cheers and Thanks!

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

tidx = find(string(T.Properties.VariableNames) == "Temperature")

[Stephen23]

Would

find(strcmp(T.Properties.VariableNames,'Temperature'))

also work?

[Sean de Wolski]

Yeah, strcmp, and ismember would both work. I've been using the datatype string strings for pretty much everything so doing an equal (or ismember) is more natural.

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

 varnames = A.Properties.VariableNames;
 [tf, column_number] = ismember('Temperature', varnames);
 if ~tf
     error('Temperature is not one of the table variables')
 end