Plotting lines in subsequent color order, line marker and line style.

Hi, I am selecting different R1.csv, R2.csv, R3.csv and R# in increasing number of files and the way I have them

set up now is that the first one that meets i==I_file prints it in red and the rest of selected

R#.csv Files are printed in black. However I want to create a loop that each file is printed in

a different line color. I've tried doing here something below but it does not work.

Can you suggest? Can the 'colororder' function work out for something like this?

do I need to define color everytime? Can the lines be on a loop as only 4 linestyles exist?

fileList = 1:length(fileNums);

%symbolList = ['o', 'x', 's', 'd','.', '^', 'v', '>', '<', '*','p', 'h','+'];

symbolList = [ 'o', '+', '*', '.', 'x', '_', '|', 's', 'd', '^', 'v', '>', '<', 'p', 'h', 'none'];

%colorList= [ [0, 0, 1], [0, 0.5, 0], [0, 0.4470, 0.7410], [0, 0.75, 0.75], [0.75, 0, 0.75], [0.75, 0.75, 0], [0.25, 0.25, 0.25] ];

colorList = ['#F00','#F80','#FF0','#0B0','#00F','#50F','#A0F'];

lineList = ['-', '--', ':', '-.'];

figure(3);

ax1 = gca;

ax1.Units = 'normalized';

for j=1:length(fileList)

i = fileList(j);

if i==I_file %NOTE: TO GET RID OF LINES, DELETE THE DASH in 'r%s-' etc.

%symbol = sprintf('r%s-', symbolList(mod(j-1,length(symbolList))+1));

symbol = sprintf('r%s%s', symbolList(mod(j-1,length(symbolList))+1), lineList(mod(j-1,length(lineList))+1) );

p=plot(I_u_std(:,i), z/z_of_V_max, symbol, 'LineWidth', 1);

p.DisplayName = sprintf('x/b=%3.3g', x_b(fileNums(i)));

elseif ~hideOtherXoverBs

%symbol = sprintf('k%s-', symbolList(mod(j-1,length(symbolList))+1));

symbol = sprintf('%s%s%s',colorList(mod(j-1,length(colorList))+1), symbolList(mod(j-1,length(symbolList))+1), lineList(mod(j-1,length(lineList))+1) );

p=plot(I_u_std(:,i), z/z_of_V_max, symbol, 'LineWidth', 0.1);

p.DisplayName = sprintf('x/b=%3.3g', x_b(fileNums(i)));

end %if

hold on;

end %for i

Answer 1

[Voss]

symbolList = [ 'o', '+', '*', '.', 'x', '_', '|', 's', 'd', '^', 'v', '>', '<', 'p', 'h', 'none'];
symbolList = 'o+*.x_|sd^v><phnone';

Those two lines do the same thing. That's not what you want. You want a cell array (because the symbols can be of different length because of the 'none'):

symbolList = { 'o', '+', '*', '.', 'x', '_', '|', 's', 'd', '^', 'v', '>', '<', 'p', 'h', 'none'};

Then access the jth element of symbolList with {}:

symbolList{mod(j-1,length(symbolList))+1}

Similarly for lineList for the same reason.

For colorList you can use a cell array of 1-by-3 numeric vectors, or you can use a 2d (n-by-3) numeric array:

colorList= [ 0, 0, 1; 0, 0.5, 0; 0, 0.4470, 0.7410; 0, 0.75, 0.75; 0.75, 0, 0.75; 0.75, 0.75, 0; 0.25, 0.25, 0.25 ];

Then the jth color will be the jth row of colorList:

colorList(mod(j-1,size(colorList,1))+1,:)

But, yes, you can use ColorOrder for the colors as well. If you use ColorOrder, you would not specify the line colors when you create the lines.