MATLAB - array2table nesting - arrays

Question

For the purpose of simplicity I'll try to take an example from everyday life. Let's say I have a table in CSV file loaded in a table called dataOriginal with 3 columns - names, jobs , dates.
Let's take a closer look at the column "date":
date
____
'13.01.2014 20:34'
'22.03.2014 11:17'
...
I want to split date in a date-vector and add this vector (along with the variable names for each of it's columns (since we have multiple dates we have de facto a matrix)) to a column in a new table again named "Date" but with all the naming goodies in it such as year, month etc.
Here is what I have done so far (sorry for the poor code quality but I've just started learning MATLAB :-/):
I split each date in a date-vector and also add names to each element like this:
dateFormat = 'dd.mm.yy HH:MM';
[year,month,day,hour,minute,second] = datevec(datesRaw, dateFormat);
so that I have this:
year(1) % returns '2014' since this is the first date in my column
year % returns all years in my entire column
Then I converted the above to a table:
dates = array2table([year,month,day,hour,minute,second],'VariableNames',{'year','month',...,'second'});
so I get a nice output like this
year month second
____ _____ ... ______
2014 1 0
2014 3 0
... ... ... ...
This allows me an easy-to-read access to each column by simply calling for example:
year % returns all years
year(1) % returns first entry's year (here: '2014' from '13.01.2014 20:34')
I've processed my other columns too doing various operations on those and at the end I'm trying to horizontally concatenate all like this:
name job date
____ _____________________ _____________________
year month ... second
____ _____ ______
"Bob" "Construction worker" 2014 1 ... 0
"Alice" "Waitress" 2014 3 ... 0
... ... ... ... ... ...
I'm struggling exactly with the part with the nesting of year,month etc. in a single column named "date". I'd like to address a date's element in the table above as follows:
myData.name(1) % will return 'Bob'
myData.job(1) % will return 'construction worker'
myData.date(1).year(1) % should return '2014' for Bob, the construction worker
Currently I'm having the following code after some sweating and swearing:
dataFinal =
horzcat(array2table([dataProcessed(:,1),dataProcessed(:,2)],'VariableNames',[dataOriginal.Properties.VariableNames(1),dataOriginalProperties,VariableNames(2)]],
array2table([year,month,day,hour,minute,second],'VariableNames',{'year','month','day','hour','minute','second'}))
where
dataProcessed(:,1) are my processed names
dataProcessed(:,2) are my processed jobs
dataOriginal.Properties.VariableNames(1) is the name of the first column in my original table - "name"
dataOriginal.Properties.VariableNames(2) is the name of the second column in my original table - "job"
I do not know how to insert
array2table([year,month,day,hour,minute,second],'VariableNames',{'year','month','day','hour','minute','second'})
in a named column "date" in order to accomplish my goal.
Thanks!

Answer 1

Try the following, it may be what you're looking for:
data = table(names, jobs, table(years, months, ...), 'VariableNames', {'name', 'job', 'date'})
Though you will address as follows, which is slightly different from what you said you want; it may still work for your purposes:
data.name(1);
data.job(1);
data.date.year(1);
EDIT: To see your output, do
disp([data(:, ~strcmp(data.Properties.VariableNames, 'date')), data.date])
names ids years months
_____ ___ _____ ______
'Bob' 1 2014 4
'Max' 2 2013 8
(when editing the comment I didn't exactly replicate the data and fields from the answer, but I think you should get the point here).