Taking data from loops and the plotting them outside the loop

I need to plot a graph based upon the answers given (there's a prompt window before this).

In my for loop, I have an if, elseif, and else statement, which gives 3 very different values. Should I try to put all these into 1 cell array? How can I access the data of each array and then plot it?

Or, if I do this step (make a matrix and not an array) and construct a matrix for each of the 3 options. So if it were like:

h = 0:1:10
y = zeros(size(h));
v = zeros(size(h));
o = zeros(size(h));
prompts = {'enter 1'};
dlg = 'title';
hold on

for i=1:5
    A = inputdlg(prompts, dlg);
    Aa = str2double(A);
    x = Aa(1);
    if x == 1
        y(i,:) = 1000*h;
        m = m + 1;
        plot(h,y(i,:));
    elseif x == 0
        v(i,:) = h+1;
        u = u + 1;    
        plot(h,v(i,:));
    else 
        o(i,:) = -h*5;
        c = c + 1; 
        plot(h,o(i,:));
    end
end
end

This will give 3 different matrices of the 3 different types of answers. When I used this option, this method will generate a new row in the matrix of each output. So if I'm on loop 5, and the if statement is triggered, and I triggered the same statement in the very first loop, then I'll get a matrix like:

v =
     1     2     3     4     5     6     7     8     9    10    11
     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0     0
     1     2     3     4     5     6     7     8     9    10    11

How can I take the data from the rows that have nonzeros and then plot them with different boundaries on the x-axis?

Answer 1

[Mehmed Saad]

Initialize these variables

m=1;u=1;c=1;

replace i with m,u and c in their cases

    if x == 1
        y(m,:) = 1000*h;
        plot(h,y(m,:));
        m = m + 1;
    elseif x == 0
        v(u,:) = h+1;
        plot(h,v(u,:));
        u = u + 1;
    else 
        o(c,:) = -h*5;
        plot(h,o(c,:));
        c = c + 1;
    end

[Austin Hernandez]

Ah, thank you! So the counter of m = m + 1 is necessary to capture each entry to the loop?

[Mehmed Saad]

There's another way but it is computationaly costly and not recommended

h = 0:1:10
y=[];v=y;o=[];
prompts = {'enter 1'};
dlg = 'title';
hold on

for i=1:5
    A = inputdlg(prompts, dlg);
    Aa = str2double(A);
    x = Aa(1);
    if x == 1
        y = [y;1000*h];
        plot(h,y(end,:));       
    elseif x == 0
        v = [v;h+1];
        plot(h,v(end,:));
    else 
        o = [o;-h*5];
        plot(h,o(end,:));
    end
end

the size of y,v and o are changing in each loop iteration and is very inefficient.