what changes are required in the code?

i have a data base with name gender and age not necessarily in the same order, some data base is gender name age. for example

'name' 'gender' 'age'

'mary' 'f' 25

'john' 'm' 35

'anna' 'f' 30

'paul' 'm' 22

'elaina' 'f' 38

what changes is required in the code so that i can only display femate above age of 30 and less that 40

function [patient] = filterpatients_cell(data)
colage = data(strcmp(data(1,:),'age'),1);
if colage == 30 && colage <= 40
col = strcmp(data(1,:),'gender');
out = data(strcmp(data(:,col),'f'),1); 
end
patient = out;

Answer 1

[KSSV]

A table would be good to deal with.

name =  {'mary','john','anna','paul','elaina'}'  ;
gender = {'f',   'm',   'f',   'm',   'f'}' ; 
age  = [25,    35,    30,    22,    38]'  ; 
T = table(name,gender,age) 

T = 5×3 table
       name       gender    age
    __________    ______    ___

    {'mary'  }    {'f'}     25 
    {'john'  }    {'m'}     35 
    {'anna'  }    {'f'}     30 
    {'paul'  }    {'m'}     22 
    {'elaina'}    {'f'}     38 

% Get females 
idx = strcmp(T.gender,'f') ;
% GEt age 
T1 = T(idx,:) ;
idx = T1.age >= 30 & T1.age <= 40 ;
T2 = T1(idx,:)

T2 = 2×3 table
       name       gender    age
    __________    ______    ___

    {'anna'  }    {'f'}     30 
    {'elaina'}    {'f'}     38 

[Manav Divekar]

is it possible with cell array? instead of table as i would like to only display the names at the end. and don't want to manually enter the input as given value is a small part of the database.

[KSSV]

It is possible with cell array. Other question is not clear.

[Manav Divekar]

Can you explain how it is possible using cell array?