plot of a string vector vs numeric vector

I wonder how to make a plot as X-axis is a text vector. I get an error when I run the folloing code (??? Error using ==> plot Invalid first data argument). I apperciate your help.

y=[1 2 3 4 5 6]

x=['a','b','c','d','e','f']

plot(x,y)

[Stephen23]

Note that in MATLAB [] is a concatenation operator and not a list operator, so this code:

 x=['a','b','c','d','e','f']

is equivalent to this:

 x = 'abcdef'

You can use a cell array or the string class to store strings as separate elements of an array.

Answer 1

[Matt Fig]

y=[1 2 3 4 5 6]
x=['a','b','c','d','e','f']
plot(y)
set(gca,'xticklabel',x.')

[Hassan]

thanks a lot Matt.

[Christine Abou Nasr]

Hello! and if I want to select just a part of the x table, how can I do? For example, I would like to plot x values 'b' to 'e'. Thank you!