How can I title my bar graph in x-axis?

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Hey,
As you know the default for x-axis in the Bar graph is just numbers. Could you please give me a hint how I can replace them by names? e.g. I would like to have a bar graph with the names of months (Jan, Feb, Mar, ...)in the x-axis.
Thank you,
Mehdi

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Grzegorz Knor
Grzegorz Knor on 30 Sep 2011
I have no idea why. This code should work:
figure
name = {'m1';'m2';'m3';'m4';'m5'};
x = [1:5]; y = [19,24,42,12,14];
bar(x,y)
set(gca,'xticklabel',name)
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Philippe Corner
Philippe Corner on 26 Jan 2018
Hi Grzegorz Knor, how could i name the xbars in a sequence.. for example to have numbers from 1:1:10.

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Grzegorz Knor
Grzegorz Knor on 30 Sep 2011
bar(1:12)
set(gca,'xticklabel',{'a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l'})

M G
M G on 30 Sep 2011
Thank you Grzegorz, At the moment I have a cell array containing names:
fname = {'m1','m2','m3','m4','m5'};
and when I name them in the x-axis as you mentioned:
x = [1:5]; y = [19,24,42,12,14]; name = [fanme];
bar(x,y)
set(gca,'xticktlabel',name)
each of columns are named as m1m2m3m4m5
How can I have m1 for column1, m2 for column2 and so on?
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Mara
Mara on 16 Feb 2017
Your problem can be solved like this:
fname = {'m1','m2','m3','m4','m5'};
x = [1:5]; y = [19,24,42,12,14];
bar(x,y)
set(gca, 'XTick', 1:length(fname),'XTickLabel',fname);

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