Detect cell entries in MATLAB Table -

i have matlab table (the new 'table' class), let's call a:

a=table([1;2;3],{'a';'b';'c'}) 

as can see, of columns double, cell.

i'm trying figure out ones cells.

for reason, there no a.properties.class can use, , can't seem call iscell on it.

what's "matlab" way of doing this? have loop through each column of table figure out class?

one approach -

out = cellfun(@(x) iscell(getfield(a,x)),a.properties.variablenames) 

or, better way access fields(variables) dynamically -

out = cellfun(@(x) iscell(a.(x)), a.properties.variablenames) 

sample runs:

run #1 -

a=table([1;2;3],{4;5;6}) =      var1    var2     ____    ____     1       [4]      2       [5]      3       [6]  out =      0     1 

run #2 -

>> a=table([1;2;3],{'a';'b';'c'}) =      var1    var2     ____    ____     1       'a'      2       'b'      3       'c'  out =      0     1 

run #3 -

>> a=table([1;2;3],{4;5;6},{[99];'a';'b'},{'m';'n';'p'}) =      var1    var2    var3    var4     ____    ____    ____    ____     1       [4]     [99]    'm'      2       [5]     'a'     'n'      3       [6]     'b'     'p'  >> out out =      0     1     1     1