plotting title with multiple strings on one line

hi guys,

i've been searhing through the community responses and google and can't find an answer so i'll ask the question here.

i have two strings that i'd like to plot both of them on the plot title in one line. i've tried using stringEASY=strcat("a ","b") then title(stringEASY) and that works, but that's not what i have, here's what i have:

str_cell_array1 = str_cell_array(1,1) in the command window looks like a 1X1 cell array {["abc\_def.h5"]}

str_cell_array2 = str_cell_array(1,2) in the command window looks like a 1X1 cell array {["ghi\_jkl.h5"]}

if i use title("abc\_def.h5","ghi\_jkl.h5") i of course get a plot but the "ghi\_jkl.h5" is a subtitle which i don't want

so i've tried to cat the two together as

string=strcat(str_cell_array1,str_cell_array2)

which in the command window looks like string = {["abc\_def.h5" "ghi\_jkl.h5"]}

and then title(string) but that doesn't work

i've also tried string=strcat({'str_cell_array1'},{'str_cell_array2'})

and then title(string) but that also doesn't work

any hints?

Todd

Answer 1

[Voss]

str_cell_array = {"abc\_def.h5" "ghi\_jkl.h5"};

str_title = strjoin(string(str_cell_array)," and ")

str_title = "abc\_def.h5 and ghi\_jkl.h5"

title(str_title);

figure
str_cell_array = {"abc\_def.h5" "ghi\_jkl.h5" "mno\_pqr.h5"};

str_title = strjoin(string(str_cell_array),", ")

str_title = "abc\_def.h5, ghi\_jkl.h5, mno\_pqr.h5"

title(str_title);

Answer 2

[Jonas]

this works for me

title("abc\_def.h5" + " and " + "ghi\_jkl.h5");

a concatenated string in one line

[Dolly More]

Is there any way to put multiple strings on different location (left corner, middle and right corner) in title?

I have 4 strings of correlation values of different section of the time series which I want to put above those sections. Is it possible to do in matlab?

Right now I am just using the value and adding spaces to seperate them which isn't working the way I want it to.

title(['R = - 0.40            ', '{\color{red} R = -0.19           ',...
'\color{blue} R = 0.43            ', '\color{green} R = 0.37}']);

[Jonas]

you could abuse latex interpreter to create a table in the title, you can set fixed to each column to stretch it as far as wished

plot(1:3);
title('\centering \begin{tabular}{p{3cm} p{3cm} p{3cm}} top left & top center & top right \\ bottom left & bottom center & bottom right \end{tabular}','Interpreter','latex')

you could also set alignment per column, but then you cannot set the column width

figure; plot(1:3)
title('\begin{tabular}{lcr} top left & top center & top right \\ bottom left & bottom center & bottom right \end{tabular}','Interpreter','latex')

but you could add white space (here \hspace - horizontal space) or empty column for additional spacing

figure; plot(1:3)
title('\begin{tabular}{lcr} top left & top center & top right \\ bottom left \hspace{1cm} & bottom center & \hspace{1cm} bottom right \end{tabular}','Interpreter','latex')

[Dolly More]

Thank you @Jonas. It works perfect!!

Answer 3

[Adam Jurhs]

that's pretty fancy, but latex is WAAAAY over my head, and the answer to my question has already been posted, thanks

Todd

[Jonas]

actually my comment was just the answer to the comment of @Dolly More, I just realized it has nothing to do with your question ;-)

[Dolly More]

I am sorry for posting a different question here. But I didn't want to create multiple questions which were on the similar line.