Remove and clear things in a table for presentation

I have a table like this:

T = 2x3 table

     percent          cars                   cats
    ________    _________________    _____________________

      '59%'           'hej'                  'nej'               
       []            '42405'                '26211'

I would like this to look like this

     percent          cars                   cats
    ________    _________________    _____________________

       59%             hej                    nej                
                      42405                  26211

Removing [] and ' '. Is there any possible way to achieve this ?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

[Peter Perkins]

Martin, the display you get for a table is aimed at showing the data in the same way as those variables would be shown if they were not in a table. It sounds like you are looking for something more towards to presentation graphics.

If you converted all of your (I think) cellstr variables to char, you'd be closer to what you want, except for the {}. Perhaps you could (temporarily?) change those values to '[]'?

>> table(["a";"b"],{'a';'b'},['a';'b'])
ans =
  2×3 table
    Var1    Var2    Var3
    ____    ____    ____
    "a"     'a'      a  
    "b"     'b'      b

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

"Is there any possible way to achieve this"

Copy all of toolbox/matlab/datatypes/@tabular into your own directory that is earlier on the path. Modify the disp.m of your hacked version:

1. change fullChar to default to true near line 30
2. near line 160, change the scalar string case to not add double-quotes
3. near line 320, change the quote characters to empty
4. test thoroughly, because chances are that somewhere there is code that relies upon those quote marks being there

Note: You asked about "any possible way", not any practical way. If you had asked about practical ways, I would have said NO.

[dpb]

:)