set y-axis to strings on plot

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I have these values:
x_values = [-0.6085 -0.6261 -0.6372]
y_values = [39306 39383 39460]
y_labels =
10:55:06
10:56:23
10:57:40 (strings)
Then I plot by:
plot(x_values,y_values)
Now, I want to change the y-axis labels with the strings y_labels. I do this by:
set(gca, 'YTickLabel', time_label);
The problem is that before I do this, YTickLabel consists of 9 values:
get(gca,'YTickLabel')=
3.93
3.932
3.934
3.936
3.938
3.94
3.942
3.944
3.946
and after it is of cause only the three I have in y_labels. But in the plot they are repeated 3 times:
Anyobe know how I fix so I only have these three labels on the y-axis, so they fit where the values are? Also I have to make sure that the distance between the labels are fitting the distance between the real values.

Accepted Answer

Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 24 Jul 2014
x_values = [-0.6085 -0.6261 -0.6372]
y_values = [39306 39383 39460]
y_labels ={'10:55:06' '10:56:23' '10:57:40'}
plot(x_values,y_values)
set(gca, 'Ytick',y_values,'YTickLabel',y_labels);

More Answers (2)

Toke Søltoft
Toke Søltoft on 24 Jul 2014
sweet. thank you. It works.

Rodney Pratt
Rodney Pratt on 28 Mar 2019
Thanks for sharing this. I've just used it and it works perfectly.

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