Array of Strings

December 3, 2009

Since Matlab treats strings as arrays, to create an array of strings put curly braces around the array index variable:

names{index} = ’string value here’

For some reason, the default font for the axes of a figure in Matlab is Helvetica, which is strange since many XP machines don’t have that particular font installed.  To change this behavior use

set(0, 'defaultAxesFontName', '<fontname>');

I added this line to my startup.m file since most of the documents that I write all use the same font.