How can I have the title on a graph change depending on whats in the graph?

I have created 7 graphs, all of them are comparing different things, but the y axis is the same in all. I have a working for loop generating the graphs. I was wondering if I can add the title into the loop so it creates the title based on what is in the x axis of the plot. The code below plots them perfectly, I am just looking for a way to add a unique title to each.

for i = 1:numel(xcardata)
    figure(i)
    plot(xcardata{i}, ycardata, 'ob') 
end

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

Use sprintf in the title.

Example —

x = 1:0.1:5;
for k = 1:5
    y = x.^k;
    figure
    plot(x, y)
    title(sprintf('y = x^{%d}',k))
end

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[Nicholas Connolly]

I understand the concept, but I am trying to add words, does the %d only work for numbers? I cant seem to get it to work. For example say I have a list of words such as (apple, dog, bannana, icecream) how do I make each of those titles on a seperate graph.

[Star Strider]

Choose the text you want in the title sprintf call, then use '%s' instead to write character vectors , i.e. words.

See the sprintf documentation section on formatSpec for details.