Problem 86. Renaming a field in a structure array

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Jan on 27 Feb 2012

Does "All the data still" mean, that the fields are not re-ordered? A lot of the solutions change the order of the fields.

Rafael S.T. Vieira on 12 Jun 2020

Currently, Matlab has the function renameStructField.

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