Change position of markers within legend

I want to change position of markers within legend. How to retrieve a marker object one by one in legend and change their position. I want to change position to reduce gap between text and marker.

Answer 1

[Osman]

I did it like this, it works perfect.

l1 = legend(.... get legend handle
linesInPlot = findobj(l1, 'type', 'line'); 
%get(linesInPlot(2),'XData') % 0.6645   0.8205
%get(linesInPlot(4),'XData') % 0.3030    0.4590
%get(linesInPlot(6),'XData') % 0.0312    0.1873

set(linesInPlot(1),'XData',0.7)
set(linesInPlot(2),'XData',[0.705   0.780])
set(linesInPlot(3),'XData',.3)
set(linesInPlot(4),'XData',[0.2435  0.3185])
set(linesInPlot(5),'XData',.11)
set(linesInPlot(6),'XData',[0.0717  0.1468])
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
textInPlot = findobj(l1, 'type', 'text'); 

pt1=get(textInPlot(1),'Position');
pt2=get(textInPlot(2),'Position');
pt3=get(textInPlot(3),'Position');

set(textInPlot(1),'Position',pt1-[0.05 0 0]);
set(textInPlot(2),'Position',pt2-[0.15 0 0]);
set(textInPlot(3),'Position',pt3-[0.05 0 0]);
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Answer 2

[Shashank Prasanna]

I am not sure which property you want to change, but you can get the handle to the legend by first searching for the figure's children. tag will tell you which one of the children is the legend. if it is the first one, then all the properties can be listed using the 3rd line of code. Some properties are in the children of the legend, and you can query them using the 4th command.

h=get(gcf,'children')

get(h,'tag')

get(h(1))

get(h(1),'children')

Look at all the legend properties that you can edit here:

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/legend.html

you can use the set command to do that.