Table description specified as a character vector or a string scalar. If specified as a string scalar, it is converted and stored internally as a character vector. You can access the Description property of a table tbl with tbl.Properties.Description.

Additional table information, specified as an array. Any type of data can be attached using this property. You can access the UserData property of a table tbl with tbl.Properties.UserData.

Dimension names specified as a two-element cell array of character vectors or a two-element string array. If specified as a string array, it is converted and stored internally as a cell array of character vectors. You can access the DimensionNames property of a table tbl with tbl.Properties.DimensionNames.

By default, DimensionNames is specified as 'Row', 'Variables'. You can access table data per rows or per columns by using either one of the two dimension names, respectively. However, if the table contains row names, then the first element of the DimensionNames corresponds to the row names.

Variable names, specified as a cell array of character vectors or a string array. If specified as a string array, it is converted and stored internally as a cell array of character vectors. All elements must be nonempty and distinct, and their number must equal the number of variables. You can access the data type of a specific variable by using dot name assignment, as in tbl.varname, where varname is the name of the variable in table tbl. If the variable name does not exist, a new one is created.

The class of the data of each variable, defined as a cell array of character vectors or a string array with the same number of elements as the number of variables in the table. If specified as a string array, it is converted and stored internally as a cell array of character vectors. You can access the VariableTypes property of a table tbl with tbl.Properties.VariableTypes. You can further index specific variables to access their data type. Modifying the elements of the VariableTypes property automatically converts the underlying data of the corresponding variable into the specified data types provided that a valid conversion is requested.

Variable descriptions, specified as a cell array of character vectors or a string array. If specified as a string array, it is converted and stored internally as a cell array of character vectors. If not empty (default), it must contain the same number of elements as the number of variables. If a specific variable does not have a description, this can be specified with an individual empty character vector or an empty string. You can access the VariableDescriptions property of a table tbl with tbl.Properties.VariableDescriptions. You can further index specific variables to access their description. Assigning an empty cell or string array returns the property to its default, and describing a single variable of a table that has no descriptions gives the remaining variables an empty description.

Variable units, specified as a cell array of character vectors or a string array. If specified as a string array, it is converted and stored internally as a cell array of character vectors. If not empty (default), it must contain the same number of elements as the number of variables. If a specific variable does not have a unit, this can be specified with an individual empty character vector or an empty string. You can access the VariableUnits property of a table tbl with tbl.Properties.VariableUnits. You can further index specific variables to access their unit. Assigning an empty cell or string array returns the property to its default, and giving a unit to a single variable of a table that has none gives the remaining variables an empty unit.

Continuity of each variable, specified as a cell array of character vectors or a string array carrying one element per variable, each of them 'unset', 'continuous', 'step' or 'event'. It is empty by default, and assigning {} or [] clears it. If specified as a string array, it is converted and stored internally as a cell array of character vectors. You can access it with tbl.Properties.VariableContinuity and you can index individual variables to read or assign their continuity.

A table carries the property but does not act on it, which is also how MATLAB behaves. A timetable uses it to choose the default fill method of each variable when resampling.

MATLAB stores this property as a matlab.tabular.Continuity enumeration. Octave has no enumeration classes, so it is stored and returned here as a cell array of character vectors, as VariableNames and VariableUnits are.

Custom properties that contain metadata of a table and its variables. By default, this is an empty container. Each custom property holds either table metadata or per-variable metadata, according to the property type ('table' or 'variable') specified when the property is created with the addprop method. A variable-scoped property holds one element per variable.

You can add an individual custom property only by using the addprop method and you can only remove a custom property with the rmprop method. To access existing custom properties use dot name structure assignment as in tbl.Properties.CustomProperties.PropertyName, where PropertyName is the name used with the addprop method.

The whole set may also be taken from another table by assigning that table’s CustomProperties to this one, which replaces every custom property with those of the other table, their types included. A variable-scoped property arriving that way must hold one element for each variable of the receiving table, or be a 0-by-0 empty. Nothing else can be assigned there.