I want to call the fifth column from a table

Hi all, I want to call the columns from a table dynamically

cellCol ={'column_1' ,'column_2', 'column_3','column_4', 'column_5'};

inputTable = array2table(trainingData, 'VariableNames',cellCol);

predictorNames = cellCol(1:end-1);
predictors = inputTable(:, predictorNames);
 
response = inputTable.cellCol{length(cellCol)};

But it gives the following error

Error using tabular/subsrefDot (line 118)
Unrecognized variable name 'cellCol'. 
Error in tabular/numArgumentsFromSubscript (line 55)
            x = t.subsrefDot(s(1));

Is there a way to call a column from a table without typing its name?

Thank you

Answer 1

[madhan ravi]

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/access-data-in-a-table.html -to know more

inputTable{:,5} % where inputTable is your table

[Omer Yasin Birey]

Thank you Madhan but I know this way. My question is about how to do it dynamically. I realized that I should edit the question.

[madhan ravi]

Still not clear upload your table with datas and illustrate an example of output.

Answer 2

[Peter Perkins]

Same way you'd do it with a struct: "dynamic field indexing", or "dynamic variable indexing" in this case.

response = inputTable.(cellCol{length(cellCol)})

If you want more than one var, use braces:

responses = inputTable{:,cellCol(whichVars)}