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How do we eliminated columns in excel file has negative values?

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i have a data which are stored in an excel file which is consist from thousands of columns, therefore in my data there are some columns completely contain negative values in random order in other words in columns which must be eliminate the complete values in these columns are negative and there is no positive values exist .. i'm thinking to check first value in every column if its negative then eliminate otherwise if >=0 then leave. as in the following image where i need to eliminated columns along with its columns labels..
i would glade thanks any one can find a way to do this process.

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Guillaume
Guillaume on 8 Feb 2017
To delete at once all the columns for which all the rows are negative:
yourmatrix(:, all(yourmatrix < 0)) = [];
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Guillaume
Guillaume on 9 Feb 2017
yourtable(:, [false, all(yourtable{:, 2:end} < 0)] = [];
However, better would be to fix the import so that the row labels become row names in the table. To your readtable add the option , 'ReadRowNames', true

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