Problem 86. Renaming a field in a structure array

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Jan on 27 Feb 2012

Does "All the data still" mean, that the fields are not re-ordered? A lot of the solutions change the order of the fields.

Rafael S.T. Vieira on 12 Jun 2020

Currently, Matlab has the function renameStructField.

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Jason Nicholson on 6 Jan 2013

When I run the test suite on my computer, this solution works. It passes the test suite.

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Jan on 27 Feb 2012

This fails, if the fieldname to be replaced appears as part of another fieldname. Example: S.ab=1; S.a=2; renamefield(S, 'a', 'c')

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