Change Number of Decimal Places on Y-Axis Tick Labels on Scatter Plot

I am producing a series of scatter plots for a scientific publication and I am trying to change the number of decimal places associated with the tick labels on the y-axis, so that it displays 4 at each increment. Lines of code of interest given below.

ylim([-0.4500 -0.4300])

ytix = get(gca,'ytick')

set(gca,'yticklabel',sprintf('%.4f',ytix));

The values of y-axis tick labels are now indeed include the desired 4 decimal places, but when trying to set the new labels, the entire matrix appears at each tick mark, instead of the appropriate single value. A screenshot of the plot is included.

Any help on how to solve the problem of getting only the right displayed at each tick mark would be appreciated.

-AmericanExpat26

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

You need to create a cell array for the y-tick labels, and split each into a separate element of the cell array. Add a separate assignment to generate the labels, and then write all but the last label (which is blank) to 'YTickLabel':

ytixlbl = regexp(sprintf('%.4f\n',ytix), '\n', 'split');
set(gca,'yticklabel',ytixlbl(1:end-1))

You can do the same thing with the strsplit function as with the regexp call, but not everyone has strsplit.

[AmericanExpat26]

Many thanks for the help.

[Star Strider]

My pleasure.