Formatting column names in a table of data (2024)

You cannot name column names like that I think.

Bestest you can do is use unicode characters. I don't recommend doing so, but is possible.

I don't think it's possible with unicode. I tried it using diacritic characters which are correctly formatted in text objects but not in table headers.

Since the run feature and local Matlab seem to use different UTF encoding, I'll use screen shots .

Nevertheless, I also recommend not using this since it complicates table indexing. The losses outweight the gains.

My bad -- I was thinking of extended ASCII character set and wrote unicode instead...you're correct, @Adam Danz, nothing but single-byte characters are rendered properly as variable name strings even though (misguided, but TMW bowed to pressure) you can now have things like blanks (including leading and trailing just to make it harder)!

table documentation specifically says

"Variable names can have any Unicode® characters, including spaces and non-ASCII characters."

Really, this is supported to allow foreign-language variable names, andvar names containing parens and dots and other punctuation. Spaces came along because it really was not clear how to sensibly draw a cutoff line. There are subtleties that are not apparent.

You are both correct that arbitrary var names are a double-edged sword.