I imagine what's happening is this: you are importing a spreadsheet using readtable, and you get a table.
>> t = readtable('myfile.xlsx')
t =
5×3 table
Var1 Var2 Var3
_______ _______ _______
0.81472 0.09754 0.15761
0.90579 0.2785 0.97059
0.12699 0.54688 0.95717
0.91338 0.95751 0.48538
0.63236 0.96489 0.80028
Then you select one element of that table:
>> t(1,1)
ans =
table
Var1
_______
0.81472
And so you are thinking that the import has created a bunch of little 1x1 tables.
But that isn't it at all. The short answer is that you likely need to use some other form of subscripting, probably something like
>> t.Var1(1)
ans =
0.81472
The longer answer is that you likely do not want to select one value at a time. Doing vectorized calculations is usually the better way. No way to tell without more context.
