How to use Hash Tables (dictionaries) in MATLAB?

Question

I need to acces data by string index, like table('one') %returns 1. Is there such a data structure in MATLAB? How is it implemented?

Answer 1

In recent versions of MATLAB, there's the containers.Map data structure. See MATLAB Map containers for more. This removes some of the restrictions when using STRUCTs. For example

c = containers.Map
c('foo') = 1
c(' not a var name ') = 2
keys(c)
values(c)