Merge arrays into table and keep the variable names

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How can I merge arrays into a table and keep the variable names from the arrays=. I have tried to merge arrays into table like this:
table(array1,array2,array3);
In the new table the variable names is shown as var1,var2 and var3. I want the variable names to be shown as array1, array2 and array3. How can I do this?
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Espen Mikkelsen
Espen Mikkelsen on 14 Mar 2018
I found out that the reason the real variable names was not shown in the table, was because the arrays I wanted to merge was in a struct array.

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Birdman
Birdman on 14 Mar 2018
table function has VariableNames option, which can be used as follows:
array1=[1;2];
array2=[3;4];
array3=[5;6];
table(array1,array2,array3,'VariableNames',{'array1','array2','array3'})
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Peter Perkins
Peter Perkins on 15 Mar 2018
Edited: Peter Perkins on 15 Mar 2018
You do not need this, though. In that code, the table's variable names will automatically be "array1", etc. So the original post is not telling us something important.
If the actual line of code were, for example
table(array1(1:10),array2(1:10),array3(1:10))
then you would have to specify variable names. But if it's really
table(array1,array2,array3)
then it happens automatically.
Edit: OK, also if the line is table(s.array1,s.array2,sarray3), then you would have to specify names. But as Stephen says, you should use struct2table for that.

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