plotting using data from a cell array

Dear Friends,

i want to automatically draw a graph of marks of students vs their names. students names are in a cell array where as marks are in a vector array. is it possible to draw a graph straight away. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

[Yona]

you can use bar and specify xlabel name.

figure
name = {'m1';'m2';'m3';'m4';'m5'};
y = [90,85,88,100,40]; 
bar(y)
set(gca,'xlabel',name)

[Sujan]

Dear Yona, Thanks for your time and plotting using bar is working fine but labelling command doesn't work as you need a double array for above code to work. So Matlab gives the following error message. "Conversion to double from cell is not possible."

[Yona]

The mark of students are in cells too? it is a number?

other question, for each student you have some marks or only one? all of them are numbers?

can you give a little example of structure you have?