How can I add multiple 1 x 1 strings to all rows in a table?

Here is a mock table.

% Mock table.
headers = {'A' 'B' 'C' 'D' 'E'};

data = cell(4,5);
T = cell2table(data);
T.Properties.VariableNames = headers;

I am trying to add four new columns at the beginning of T where each column contains the respective workspace variable across all rows.

par = "p00";
type = "Pilot";
trial_no = 1;
vel = "Moderate";

I'm a bit stuck on how to do this, so will appreciate any help.

Thank you.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/table.addvars.html

You can use 'Before' and 'after' to add the variables into a particular location in the table.

Note: you will need to supply values for all of the rows at the time you add the variables.

Much of the time it is easier to do something like

T.par = appropriate values
T.type = appropriate values
T.trial_no = appropriate values
T.vel = appropriate values

T = T(:,{'par', 'type', 'trial_no', 'vel', headers{:}});

which is to say, add the variables one by one, and then afterwards re-order the variables to the final order.