Sorting variable names in alphabetical order

Using the workspace window, wow can I sort variables defined inside a struct object in alphabetical order? clicking on the Field column doesn't sort them.

Answer 1

[José-Luis]

Looks like you might want to use orderfields()

 a.b = 1;
 a.a = 2;
 a.m = 4;
 a.h = 5

a =

    b: 1
    a: 2
    m: 4
    h: 5

 a = orderfields(a)

a =

    a: 2
    b: 1
    h: 5
    m: 4

Answer 2

[Daniel Shub]

Assuming you mean the variable editor and not the workspace window, I think this is a possible bug. There seems to me no good reason to have the ability to sort by field, and not have it perform an alphabetical sort.

[James]

I don't think it is a bug... same issue here with MATLAB 2015a. Clicking on "Field" in the Variables window sorts the fields, but it appears to be a random sort; it is not alphabetical.

[Walter Roberson]

MATLAB structs are field order dependent.

A = struct('field1', [], 'field2', []);
B = struct('field2', [], 'field1', []);
A(2) = B;

Subscripted assignment between dissimilar structures.

However, [A;B] is fine