How to initialize a table column to a character array?

I have a table "filetext" which is 19343x46. I want to append a colum on the right containing the character array 'MET'. In other words, 19343 rows of the characters 'MET'. How do I do this? I have tried various approaches.

I created a column that is the same height as filetext:

met = [height(filetext),1];

Then I tried populating it with 'MET'

met(1:height(filetext),1) = 'MET';

but I get the error message

"Unable to perform assignment because the size of the left side is 19393-by-1 and the size of the right side is 1-by-3."

If this was a simple zero initialization I could just do:

filler = zeros(height(filetext),1);

but I don't know how to do this for characters.

[Kurt]

I could do all of this with a for loop, but I prefer not to.

Answer 1

[Voss]

% a table:
filetext = table([1;2;3;4;5;6])

filetext = 6×1 table
    Var1
    ____

     1  
     2  
     3  
     4  
     5  
     6  

% append a column of all 'MET' on the right:
filetext{:,end+1} = 'MET'

filetext = 6×2 table
    Var1    Var2
    ____    ____

     1      MET 
     2      MET 
     3      MET 
     4      MET 
     5      MET 
     6      MET 

[Kurt]

Thanks! There's always a simple solution out there, somewhere.

[Voss]

You're welcome!

[Bright]

what if you try

filetext.var2 = MET

[Dyuman Joshi]

@Bright, why don't you try and see?