Problems with plotting lines and curves

[Andrew Cross]

Hi,

I'm fairly new to Matlab and am having some problems with plotting functions.
I've got two functions that I want to plot. One is a line, the other is a negative exponential curve. Both functions are calculated with depth simultaneously, but I only want to display one of the functions at each given depth (i.e. when the line function has a value less than that of the curve, I want it to plot the line, but when the curve becomes less than the line, I want to only plot the curve).

If I do this within the for loop, it only plots the points at which depth is calculated (h = 0:0.1:40) - is there any way to join these points to form a solid line? The code is:

if (var2(:,n) < var3(:,n))
plot(var2(n),h(n),'linewidth',1);
legend('Straight line');
else
plot(var3(n),h(n),'r','linewidth',1);
legend('Curve');
end

Otherwise, if I place the plot function outside the for loop, the 'if' function doesn't work and only plots whichever function is least at the maximum depth.

Any help really would be very much appreciated!

Cheers,

Andrew

[Sadik]

Hi Andrew,

Why not collect the line and the curve in two separate vectors? You should also collect the corresponding depth info so that you will say:

plot(hLine,linePoints)
hold on
plot(hCurve,curvePoints,'r')

or something like that.

Best.

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