Extracting max value from each column in a table

Question

I have generated a table of data with time in one column with attempts 1-10 in the next series of columns. I want to be able to extract the max value in each attempt for further analysis.

I have tried for table MGA

max = max(MGA(:, [])) 

I get the following error -- "You cannot subscript a table using only one subscript. Table subscripting requires both row and variable subscripts."

Answer 1

First off: Never do max = max();, you'll overload max, and you won't be able to use it again.

And to answer the question, you can do as follows (notice that I've kept the values in the first columns):

MGA
MGA =    
     1     5     3     8     9
     2     4     7     3     3
     3     8     7     6     9
     4     8     2     7     3
     5     2     2     9    10
     6     5     5    10     4
     7     5    10     6     2
     8     7     4     2     3
     9     8     6     2     7
    10     8     3     3     5

max_values = [MGA(:,1), max(MGA(:,2:end),[],2)]
max_values =    
     1     9
     2     7
     3     9
     4     8
     5    10
     6    10
     7    10
     8     7
     9     8
    10     8