semilog plot with a self defined x-axis range

I have a time series data and I would like to plot them in the semilogx ranging from [10^(-4) to 10^2] as the attached figure. May I know how to do that?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

T = readtable('data.xlsx', 'VariableNamingRule', 'preserve');
whos T

  Name       Size            Bytes  Class    Attributes

  T         42x2              1905  table              

T.Properties.VariableNames

ans = 1×2 cell array
    {'return period (year)'}    {'surge'}

plot(T, "return period (year)", "surge");
set(gca, 'XScale', 'log')
xlim([10^-4, 10^2])

[jie hu]

thanks very much!.

[Dyuman Joshi]

You can also use semilogx.

And another function available from R2023b onwards - xscale