How to append different tables of different class types (a table of class type datetime and a table of classs type double)

I have a table 'A' of size 5 x 1, class type 'datetime' and another table 'B' of size 5 x 1 and class type 'double'. I want to append both A and B so that a new table is 'C' is formed and size of table 'C' is 5 x 6 and the first column is datetime and remaining columns are double.

Ex:

   A = 
     01/02/2016
     01/03/2016
     01/04/2016
     01/05/2016
     01/08/2016

   B = 
      0.99    0.99    0.99    0.99    0.99
      1.00    1.00    1.00    1.00    0.99
      0.99    1.00    0.99    0.99    0.99
      0.99    0.99    0.99    0.99    1.00
      1.00    1.00    1.00    1.00    1.00

C is a 5 x 6 table of which first column is A and remaining columns are formed by appending B with A.

Thanks in advance..

Answer 1

[Peter Perkins]

I think you mean that B is 5x5, not 5x1.

You probably want to be careful using the word "table", since table is a data type in MATLAB. In fact, it's likely the data type you want. Depending on what you want, you might do one of two things.

1) Create a table with two variables, one of which is a column vector, one of which itself has 5 columns:

>> A = datetime({'01/02/2016';'01/03/2016';'01/04/2016';'01/05/2016';'01/08/2016'});
Warning: Successfully read the date/time text using the format 'MM/dd/uuuu', but their format is ambiguous and could also be
'dd/MM/uuuu'. Specify a format character vector to avoid ambiguity. 
> In guessFormat (line 66)
  In datetime (line 609) 
>> B = [0.99 0.99 0.99 0.99 0.99;
     1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 0.99;
     0.99 1.00 0.99 0.99 0.99;
     0.99 0.99 0.99 0.99 1.00;
     1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00];
>> T = table(A,B)
T =
  5×2 table
         A              B      
    ___________    ____________
    02-Jan-2016    [1x5 double]
    03-Jan-2016    [1x5 double]
    04-Jan-2016    [1x5 double]
    05-Jan-2016    [1x5 double]
    08-Jan-2016    [1x5 double]

2) Split B into 5 separate variables in the table:

>> T = [table(A) array2table(B)]
T =
  5×6 table
         A          B1      B2      B3      B4      B5 
    ___________    ____    ____    ____    ____    ____
    02-Jan-2016    0.99    0.99    0.99    0.99    0.99
    03-Jan-2016       1       1       1       1    0.99
    04-Jan-2016    0.99       1    0.99    0.99    0.99
    05-Jan-2016    0.99    0.99    0.99    0.99       1
    08-Jan-2016       1       1       1       1       1