We recommend against that firmly.
Already, a table acts like a struct for the purpose of dynamic field name access.
V = 'RCON8697';
sample.(V)
and if you do not need to work with the names dynamically then you can just access by field name.
sample.RCON8697
You could also use table2struct() to move directly to struct form, if that is helpful.
fieldnames() can be applied to a table, but it does return the extra names 'Properties', 'Row', and 'Variables' beyond the variable names.
