Creating Surf() with Labels

Question

[ndata, text, alldata] = xlsread(\'Euro swap rates.xlsx\',3);
%(although created from text dates is still a cell array?) 
dates=text(:,1);  
%(Same problem here)
rates_h         


        

Answer 1

It looks like you want to set the labels on the x-axis.

You don't do this through surf, you do it after using set, like this:

set(axHandle, 'XTickLabel', xlabels);

Here is a complete example:

[x  y] = meshgrid(-4:.25:4;);
z = x.^2 + y.^2;
xlab = {'one','two','three','four'};

surf(x,y,z);
set(gca,'XTickLabel', xlab);

You can use whatever labels you want provided that they are strings and saved to a cell array. This is what I did above for xlab.