Need help for loop keeps overwriting plots

Hi everyone, I am working on some code and I am having issues. Every time I run the code instead of obtaining 5 unique figures, I get the same figure 5 times as my code reads all of the files but only plots the last one.
numfiles = 5;
mydata = cell(1, numfiles);
for i = 1:5
myfilename = sprintf('file%d.xlsx', i);
mydata{i} = xlsread('Base_01');
myfilename = sprintf('file%d.xlsx',i);
newdata{i} = xlsread('Hydrophone_01');
end
save('mydata.mat')
save('newdata.mat')
for i = 1:5 %why is it only plotting the last data set
thisfig = figure();
Data = mydata{1,i} (15005:21255,:);
subplot(3,1,1);
plot(Data(:,1),Data(:,2))
xlim([60 85])
title('Amplitude vs. Time for Base Data')
Code continues on further but I just shortened it here because this is the main issue I am having.
Thanks! Any help will be appreciated.

6 Comments

This code plots two diagrams on top of each other - as should be expected.
for ii = 1:2 %why is it only plotting the last data set
thisfig = figure();
Data(:,2) = randn( 17, 1 );
Data(:,1) = (1:17)';
subplot(3,1,1);
plot(Data(:,1),Data(:,2))
title('Amplitude vs. Time for Base Data')
end
what does the randn do?
Also, what do you mean by plotting two diagrams on top of each other?
per isakson
per isakson on 29 Oct 2018
Edited: per isakson on 29 Oct 2018
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Answers (1)

numfiles = 5;
mydata = cell(1, numfiles);
for i = 1:5
myfilename = sprintf('file%d.xlsx', i);
mydata{i} = xlsread('Base_01');
myfilename = sprintf('file%d.xlsx',i);
newdata{i} = xlsread('Hydrophone_01');
end
save('mydata.mat')
save('newdata.mat')
for i = 1:5 %why is it only plotting the last data set
thisfig = figure(i);
Data = mydata{1,i} (15005:21255,:);
subplot(3,1,1);
plot(Data(:,1),Data(:,2))
xlim([60 85])
title('Amplitude vs. Time for Base Data')
end

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I have tried that already. When I use
thisfig = figure(i);
I end up obtaining the same plot 5 times.
Mind uploading your file?

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