Fields within Cell structures.

I was just trying to find out how to sort by field of a structure. say I have 10 cars that are all:

Car(1).name = 'BMW 3 Series'

Car(1).type = 'Sedan'

Car(1).mpg = 30

Car(1).price = 40,000

Car(1).seats= 5

(but different of course) , how could i sort them after asking a question by, say 20mpg or over, and then take that new list and sort it by price, and so on.

Answer 1

[James Tursa]

E.g., to sort everything by mpg:

[~,x] = sort([Car.mpg]);
CarMpg = Car(x);

To pick off only those with certain constraints, e.g.

x = [CarMpg.mpg] >= 20;
CarMpg20 = CarMpg(x);

Answer 2

[Vasco Lenzi]

I would use Table instead of Struct

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/table.html

it would make your life sooooo much easier.

Some table workflow example:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/create-a-table.html?searchHighlight=table&s_tid=srchtitle