How to put string to a column of a table

Hi,

It may sound silly, but I cant figure out how to insert a string to a column of a table.

I have tried few ways to insert, but failed.

The thing is, I need to insert a string, suppose, "cricketer" in the column, named "Role" in the table, called, "Players".

The table is of form like this:

   Name     Role
   "abc"    
   "bcd"
   "cdf"

I have tried few things randomly, like

Players.Role(:,1)="cricketer"

but it appears NaN in the cells of the Role column.

Can you please show me the right way to do it?

thanks,

Answer 1

[Adam Danz]

"... but it appears NaN in the cells of the Role column."

Sounds like the Role column is an empty cell array or a numeric column. Table columns but contain the same type of data and cannot contain mixed classes. You can use a cell array to enter mixed data types if needed.

Players = table(["abc";"dcd";"cdf"], cell(3,1),'VariableNames',{'Name','Role'})
Players.Role{1} = 'Cricketer';  

If the entire column should be strings, you can convert the cell array to a string array,

Players.Role = repmat("Cricketer", size(Players.Name))

or you can set the initial values of "Role" as a string array rather than a cell array,

Players = table(["abc";"dcd";"cdf"], ["";"";""],'VariableNames',{'Name','Role'})
Players.Role(:) = "Cricketer";