How do I use text for ticks on X axis?

I have a loop that gives a variable a different name:

EX

i = 1;
while i < 5

    if i == 1 
            name = 'CRHS';   
    elseif i == 2
            name ='ELLY';
    elseif i == 3
            name = 'LGWD';
    elseif i ==4
            name = 'ECFS';
    elseif i ==5
            name = 'THMS';
    end

i = i + 1;
  end

I want to plot a figure using the 'name' variable as the corresponding X tick. For example for tick 1, use 'CRHS', tick 2 use 'ELLY', etc.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

[dpb]

names = {'CRHS'; 'ELLY'; 'LGWD'; 'ECFS'; 'THMS'};
plot(...
set(gca,'xtick',[1:5],'xticklabel',names)

Set the tick values vector to appropriate numerical values dependent on the axis limits, of course. I just used the position values for demo porpoises...

[Sandy]

Perfect! Thank you!

[S. Gopal]

Thanks...It really works... I was searching of such a function ..Thanks again

[Oded Scharf]

hey, how can I write the label vertically and not horizontaly? the ticks go on top of each other when they're horizontal.

thank you

[dpb]

Use the [X|Y]TickLabelRotation property.

[Anna Stafford]

Thanks so much!

[Vijay]

How can I get each name that has more than one row? Something like...

'CRHS

Age-10yrs'

The expectation is that each string contains 2 or 3 pieces of information.

Thanks

[dpb]

Embed the newline '\n' in the string. Building with sprintf is often handy here.

[Jack]

Is there any way to label all the tics but dynamically display them? For example you label x points 1:10 but if the plot is sized down by the user, some of the labels dissapears to fit? Similar to the default functionality matlab has with automatic axis resizing

[dpb]

Once you write the tick labels manually you've broken the link between the tick marks and the tick labels; no automagic updating will happen after that.

You would have to write callback routines to handle the tick labels to go along with the ticks as wanted.