Problem 1408. Given the name from the legend, return the handle

Created by Michael C.

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Write a function that will return the handle to the desired object. The input for this function will be a string which represents the objects name which has been created through a call to the "legend" function.

Example:

h_right = plot(1:2,1:2,'ro'); hold on; h_wrong = plot(1:3,1:3,'bx')

legend('Right','Wrong');

h_match = GetHandleByName('Right');

The test suite will test for: isequal(h_match,h_right)

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Muthu Annamalai on 6 Apr 2013

Can you give us any hints? I tried findobj() but can't make progress!

Michael C. on 8 Apr 2013

You are on the right track with findobj(). The trick is what the call to "legend" does to the objects that make the solution very simple.

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