Evenly distribute strings on axis ticks

Hey everyone,

I want to make a graph and replace the 'xticklabel' by an array of strings.

y = rand(20,1); %fake data
bar(y);

XLabelStrings = {'T1', 'T2', 'T3', 'T4', 'T5', 'T6'};
set(gca, 'xticklabel', XLabelStrings, 'xtick', 1:length(XLabelStrings));

I would like to spread the strings evenly over the x axis. However, this array of string doesn't have the same number of values than the number of data points on the graph and i can't seem to find a way to fix this problem.

I have looked around but couldn't find an answer to this particular case.

Thank you for your help!

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

You have 20 data points with implicit x values 1:20. You are requesting xtick 1:6. If you want the first label at 1 and the last at 20 and the other 4 equal in the interior then xtick with linspace(1,length(y), length(XLabelStrings))

[David Benoit]

Thank you very much. Exactly what i needed.