Copying uitable contents and column headings to clipboard for non-fixed column headings

Hello.

I am using the following code below to copy the contents of a uitable.

s=get(handles.uitableResults,'data')
size_s = size(s); 
str = sprintf('%s\t%s\t\%s\t\%s\t','Plane','FWHM', 'Enc.Energy','<loc Int>','Brenner');
str = sprintf ( '%s\n', str );
%str = ''; 
for i=1:size_s(1) 
    for j=1:size_s(2) 
        str = sprintf ( '%s%f\t', str, s(i,j) ); 
    end 
    str = sprintf ( '%s\n', str ); 
end 
clipboard ( 'copy', str );

I have hardcoded the titles (column headings), however I now use this code to copy many different populations of the uitable, each with a different number of columns and column headings. Can the above code be generalised to just pick up the current column names?

Thanks

Jason

Answer 1

[Geoff Hayes]

Jason - I think that you can use the ColumnName property of the uitable to get the column names. For example,

 hTable = uitable('Data',[1 2 3; 4 5 6; 7 8 9], 'ColumnName', {'A', 'B', 'C'});
 columnNames = get(hTable, 'ColumnName');

where columnNames is a cell array of the column names for your table.

[Jason]

Thanks Geoff. Im struggling to convet a variale number of elements within the cell array intot he following format

str = sprintf('%s\t%s\t\%s\t\%s\t','Plane','FWHM', 'Enc.Energy','<loc Int>','Brenner')

How do I have a variable number of %s/t ?

Thanks

Jason

[Geoff Hayes]

Hi Jason - perhaps try

str = sprintf('%s\t', columnNames{:});

[Jason]

Perfect, thanks Geoff