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Figure Command
Suppose you want to plot two different vectors in two different windows, use the “figure”
command. The example given below illustrates the use of the “figure” command.
% to illustrate the figure command
x=[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10];
y=[12 23 4 5 65 67 89];
figure(1)
plot(x)
grid
title('plot of X')
figure(2)
plot(y)
grid
title('plot of Y')
The above code will plot the values of x and y in two different figure windows. If you want to
know more about the command type the following at the command prompt.
help figure