Distance between axis label and axis in MATLAB figure

Question

I\'m plotting some data with MATLAB and I\'d like to adjust the distance between axis label and the axis itself. However, simply adding a bit to the \"Position\" property of the

Answer 1

I know this has been answered and all, but this is (to some extent) a simpler way:

relative_offset = 1.5;
close all;
figure(99);clf
plot(rand(1,10))
xlabel('The x-axis')
xh = get(gca,'XLabel'); % Handle of the x label
pause(0.2)
set(xh, 'Units', 'Normalized')
pause(0.2)
pos = get(xh, 'Position');
set(xh, 'Position',pos.*[1,relative_offset,1])

I have included the pause commands, since my system will get ahead of itself in some weird way otherwise.

/Niels