How to left align YDisplayLabels in a heatmap

Hello,

I have generated a heatmap on MATLAB. The display labels for the y-axis are included in a line that looks like the following:

labels={'aaaa','bbb','c'};
h1=heatmap(rand(3,3));
h1.YDisplayLabels=labels;

I would like the YDisplayLabels to be left aligned in the window and not right-aligned, which is the default. Can you please help me figure out the syntax to do that?

Answer 1

[Adam Danz]

You can pad the labels with empty spaces so that all labels are the same length using

labels={'aaaa','bbb','c'};
h1=heatmap(rand(3,3));
drawnow 
labelsPadded = pad(labels,max(strlength(labels)));

h1.YDisplayLabels = labelsPadded;

but unless you're using a fixed width font, it may not produce exact right alignment.

h1.FontName = 'consolas';

[Aseel]

Thanks! Yes, this would be great but I need the font to be Arial or Helvetica so unfortunately it doesn't end up looking right.