How do I assign a value to a particular column in a subsection of a table?

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Using the example testing data on https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/calculations-on-tables.html, I would like to write something like
T(T.Gender=='female',:).Test2 = 100
I can do something similar with array data, but get an error with table data. Is there a simple way to make this work without having to create a dummy array of the appropriate length for my constant value?
T = readtable(fullfile(matlabroot,'examples','matlab','testScores.csv'),...
'ReadRowNames',true)
T.Gender = categorical(T.Gender)
% select a subset of the rows
rows = T.Gender=='female'
% this works, and is my usual way of working with array data
A = table2array(T(:,2:4))
A(rows,2) = 100
% This works, but is ugly
T(rows,:).Test2 = 100 * ones(size(T(rows,:).Test2))
% This does not work
T(rows,:).Test2 = 100
Error: 'To assign to or create a variable in a table, the number of rows must match the height of the table. '

Accepted Answer

Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 9 May 2017
T{rows,'Test2'} = 100;
  2 Comments
Karen
Karen on 9 May 2017
Thanks. After posting the question, I finally found the right page of documentation...
Peter Perkins
Peter Perkins on 10 May 2017
For assigning to just one variable in a table, you might find
T.Test2(rows) = 100;
more readable.

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