Adding more colors to my array

Hey everyone, i have an array of colors and would like to add more. I currently have:

 plot_type = ['r'; '-g'; '-b'; '-c'; '-m';'-k'];

and would like to have something like:

 plot_type = ['-r';'-b';'-g';'-g';'-y';'-k';'-m';'-.r';'-.b';'-.g';'-.y';'-.k';'-.m';'-.p';'-.c';'-g';'-y'];

but matlab does not like it. Any other way of doing the latter? thanks!

[John Petersen]

You have -.p in the 2nd array. It should probably be a '-.b'.

[u-will-neva-no]

Thanks John that helped. The only other chanhe I made was to create two seperate matrix. Matlab didnt like having different numbers of columns which is understandable.

[Jan]

"Matlab does not like it" is not really helpful. When you explain a problem, adding the complete error message and the line, which causes the error is recommended.

Answer 1

[Doug Hull]

You might want to look into he ColorOrder and LineStyleOrder properties. It seems you might be trying to do somethign where that would be helpful.

I personally, would also consider using a cell array to hold all those plot_types. I am uncomfortable having an array of strings, since they get padded to be all the same length. You are not running into any problems here, but cell array of strings is a better general pattern for this.