(How) Can I access multiple columns of a table using colon between their (string) lables (variable names)?

Say I have the following table T:

T=table;
T.Name={'Alice';'Bob';'Mallory'};
T.Age=randi([18 80],3,1);
T.Salary=randi(100,3,1);
T.Weight=randi([60 90],3,1);
T.Height=randi([150 200],3,1);

I know that I can access a span of columns if I know their index, e.g., T(:,3:5) for sub-table or T{:,3:5} for direct access to the elements therein, and obviously, I can explicitly mention their variable names, as in T(:,{'Salary','Weight','Height'}), but can I use their variable names and colon to specify a span of columns? (something like: T(:,{'Salary' [through] 'Height'}) - I think you could do that in R for instance. But does Matlab have such a feature too? So far, the only workaround that I could think of is the following:

T(:,find(strcmp(T.Properties.VariableNames,'Salary')):find(strcmp(T.Properties.VariableNames,'Height')))

Is there a more efficient way of going about it? Thanks!

[Walter Roberson]

My thought was that that conceptually when you use the names, the columns are unordered. I could be wrong about that.

Answer 1

[Peter Perkins]

Arman, there may be a more compact way to write it using ismember, but that is more or less the right way to do what you want.