Plotting with a handle stored in a variable

Asked by Matthew on 11 Jun 2012

Latest activity Commented on by Matthew on 11 Jun 2012

This may be an obvious question but it is proving exceedingly frustrating for me right now. Is there a way to store a location to be used in the future for plotting as a variable?

For example: plotloc='handles.smallgraph' and then later on after defining x and y: plot(plotloc,x,y)

When I try this I get the error: Error using plot, invalid first data argument.

Thoughts?

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Answer by Tom on 11 Jun 2012

you don't need to use the apostrophes, or even really the plotloc variable, you can just write

plot(handles.smallgraph,x,y)

That is, assuming handles has been passed into your function.

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Matthew on 11 Jun 2012

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Thanks for the response. I knew I could do that, it was more a question of simplicity because there are so many plotting possibilities in my program that I was looking for a way to avoid having to write so many conditional statements.