How do I create a table containing a character array if it has only one row?

This works fine:

Time = [1;2];Force = [12;17];ID = ['ab';'cd'];
T = table(Time,Force,ID)

But this fails:

Time = [1];Force = [12];ID = ['ab'];
T = table(Time,Force,ID)

There may be a good reason for this, but the behaviour does not seem logical to me.

Does anyone have good workaround?

[Stephen23]

"There may be a good reason for this"

Yes: single character vectors are presumed to be part of name-value arguments.

Answer 1

[Simon Chan]

Time = [1];Force = [12];ID = {'ab'};
T = table(Time,Force,ID)

T = 1×3 table
    Time    Force      ID  
    ____    _____    ______

     1       12      {'ab'}

Actually, the error message tells you the solution.

Time = [1];Force = [12];ID = ['ab'];
T = table(Time,Force,ID)

Error using table (line 282)
Wrong number of arguments.

Caused by:
You might have intended to create a one-row table with the character vector 'ab' as one of its variables. To store text data in a table, use a string array or a cell array of character vectors rather than character arrays. Alternatively, create a cell array with one row, and convert that to a table using CELL2TABLE.

[Are Mjaavatten]

I did read that, but I did not quite grasp it. Thank for spoonfeeding it to me.

This seems to work for any number of rows:

T = table(Time,Force,cellstr(ID))

[Csaba Zoltán Kertész]

You could also try to use strings instead of character vectors if you do not want to hassle with cells:

Time = [1]; Force = [12]; ID = ["ab"];
T = table(Time, Force, ID)