Previous legend replaces the new one in a plot, why?

In an app (desgined using Matlab), I plot x and y-data and clear axes using 'cla' in order to plot a different x-y data. The issue is- the legend from the previous re-appears on the new graph replacing the new legend. I can not understand why. I want to completely remove the legend for the first dataset and prepare the same axes for a new data. I have tried using other functions as well but it does not work. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

[Kevin Holly]

Were you changing the location of the legend as shown below? I made a quick app (attached) using the approach below.

plot(rand(10,1),rand(10,1))
hold on
plot(rand(10,1),rand(10,1))
legend({'example';'example2'},"Location","west")

cla
plot(rand(10,1),rand(10,1))

If that is the case, you can create a handle for the legend and delete it after clearing axes.

figure
plot(rand(10,1),rand(10,1))
hold on
plot(rand(10,1),rand(10,1))
L=legend({'example';'example2'},"Location","west");

cla
delete(L)
plot(rand(10,1),rand(10,1))
legend

[Raju Kumar]

Dear @Kevin Holly

Thanks very much for your comment. No, I do not change the location. What I do is just clear the axes using cla which makes the plot and legend disappear, but when I plot a different data on the same cleared axes, the previous legend appears at the same location, not the new one. I checked with this delete function but it did not help.

Raju

[Kevin Holly]

@Raju Kumar What version of MATLAB are you using?