Re: displaying structures array as table

[Ben Abbott]

On Sep 1, 2011, at 4:45 AM, CdeMills wrote:

> forkandwait wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> (Maybe you want something more than display? Honestly displaying
>> heterogeneous
>> data is the only reason I miss R.)
>> 
>> Then you could have something like the following:
>> 
>> a(1).label = 'first';  a(1).x = 1; a(1).y=10;
>> a(2).label = 'second'; a(2).x = 2; a(2).y=25;
>> 
>>> dispt(a)
>> 
>> label   x  y
>> ------------
>> first   1 10
>> second  2 25
>> 
> 
> Enclosed in a first try at implementing this.
> Prerequise: 
> -a structure array with a vector shape
> -all fields are numeric
> This function is a wrapper around 'disp', so global formating preferences
> are used. Field names are used as row/column headers, according to the
> structure orientation. Empty values are printed as 'NA', and when the
> elements do not all have the same length, the shorter ones are padded with
> blanks. Comment, remarks, and ameliorations are welcome.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Pascal

I applied jwe's patch, created a directory in my pwd() named @struct and placed 
the function below in it. I have tabdisp.m in my pwd.

function display (a)
  if (size (a, 1) == 1 && all (cellfun (@isnumeric, struct2cell(a)(:))))
    tabdisp (a)
  else
    disp (a)
  endif
end

Now I see ...

>> a=[]; a(1).a = 1; a(2).a=2; a(1).b = 3; a(2).b = 4;
>> a
ans = 
a    1   2
b    3   4

Ben