using uitable for mixed data

I have a table of mixed type: 'word', 1, 5, 9 [multiple rows]

I want to create a table using uitable and get the error: While setting the 'Data' property of 'Table': Data must be a numeric, logical, or cell array

How do I display mixed data?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

data = {'word', 1, 5, 9; 'another', 7, 13, 21};
uitable('Data', data)

What would not be allowed is

data = {{'word', 1, 5, 9}; {'another', 7, 13, 21}}

That is, it is fine to use a cell array, but each entry inside the cell array must be a character vector or a numeric scalar or a logical (the new string data type is not supported either.). You are probably trying to use a cell array that has cell arrays in it.

[Stephen Thompson]

Indeed I was. I made the text into a character array, then made a cell array of that such that the cell array is of type:

[126x11 char] [126x1 double]

However now:

While setting the 'Data' property of 'Table': Data within a cell array must have size [1 1]

I guess because the dimensions don't match. What would be a valid way to store the text such that the dimensions remain 126X1.

[Walter Roberson]

You need to break those parts into rows. You can use mat2cell for that

T = cellfun(@(M) mat2cell(M, ones(1, size(M,1)), size(M,2)), ThatCell, 'Uniform', 0);
data = [T{1}, T{2}];