Table properties giving error

I am trying to view a table's properties, and MATLAB is throwing an odd error. This even happens when I am using very stripped-down code. See attached.

clear all
load patients % demo dataset
T = table(LastName,Age,Smoker,Weight); % make a table
summary(T) % table made...
T.Properties.VariableNames % prove Properties are there...
T.Properties % throws error!

[Zachary Eilon]

Note, this error does not appear when I run this on MATLAB 2017b. In that version, the Table properties display fine.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

You have a third-party function named split on your MATLAB path.

which -all split

/MATLAB/toolbox/matlab/strfun/split.m
split is a built-in method                                                   % Shadowed string method
split is a Java method                                                       % Shadowed java.lang.String method
/MATLAB/toolbox/matlab/bigdata/@tall/split.m                                 % Shadowed tall method
/MATLAB/toolbox/matlab/datatypes/calendarDuration/@calendarDuration/split.m  % Shadowed calendarDuration method
/MATLAB/toolbox/wavelet/wavedemo/@wtree/split.m                              % Shadowed wtree method
/MATLAB/toolbox/wavelet/wavedemo/@edwttree/split.m                           % Shadowed edwttree method
/MATLAB/toolbox/wavelet/wavedemo/@rwvtree/split.m                            % Shadowed rwvtree method
/MATLAB/toolbox/wavelet/wavelet/@dtree/split.m                               % Shadowed dtree method
/MATLAB/toolbox/wavelet/wavelet/@wdectree/split.m                            % Shadowed wdectree method
/MATLAB/toolbox/wavelet/wavelet/@wptree/split.m                              % Shadowed wptree method
/MATLAB/examples/wavelet/data/@wtree/split.m                                 % Shadowed wtree method
/MATLAB/examples/wavelet/data/@edwttree/split.m                              % Shadowed edwttree method
/MATLAB/examples/wavelet/data/@rwvtree/split.m                               % Shadowed rwvtree method

[Zachary Eilon]

Thank you so much - good catch!