legend dynamically updated

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Chiara Modenese
Chiara Modenese on 21 Mar 2011
Commented: Moritz Stich on 31 Mar 2022
Hi, my task would be to have a legend which is update dynamically as I loop over some data extracted from different files and I add them to a same plot, for instance. To put it better, I would like to "append" a label to my legend every time I update my plot. Would you know how to do it?
Chiara
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Matthew
Matthew on 25 Sep 2018
Those were the days.
Moritz Stich
Moritz Stich on 31 Mar 2022
Jon Bailey you are a dynamic legend. Thanks

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Paulo Silva
Paulo Silva on 21 Mar 2011
clf
clc
hold all
x=0:0.01:2*pi;
b=zeros(5);
for a=1:5
b(a)=plot(x,sin(a*x));
legend(b(1:a))
pause(1) %just to see it being draw
end
Alternative with choosen names for each plot
clf
clc
hold all
x=0:0.01:2*pi;
b=zeros(5);
c={'one','two','three','four','five'};
for a=1:5
b(a)=plot(x,sin(a*x));
legend(b(1:a),c(1:a))
pause(1)
end
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Chiara Modenese
Chiara Modenese on 21 Mar 2011
Thanks for a very helpful community. Question is answered.
Cheers. Chiara

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Matt Fig
Matt Fig on 21 Mar 2011
How are you updating the plot? In a loop?
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rodolfo reyesbaez
rodolfo reyesbaez on 21 May 2019
I added a hold on before ending the loop

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Chiara Modenese
Chiara Modenese on 21 Mar 2011
Yes, in a simple loop. Data come from different structures, but this is not so important. Basically, I want to avoid this:
legend(ss(1).name,ss(2).name,ss(3).name);
where ss(i) are structures. Every time I run my code, I can chose the number of structures to create, so I do not want to modify my legend as a function of this but, instead, do it automatically (so if I have 5 structures, I expect 5 corresponding labels in my legend, no need to modify the code by hand).
Thanks, Chiara

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