Remove an item in legend

Hi,

I have a legend like

x, y, spline

I would like the legend to only show x, y and not show spline as a dataset. How can I do this? I would preferably not have to redo the whole image.

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

How abotu just calling legend again without the input for the line you don't want:

hLine  = plot(1:10,1:10,'r-',1:10,10:-1:1,'b-');
hLegend = legend(hLine,'up','down');

Now to remove it:

%Add another legend:
legend(hLine(1),'up')

[Lizan]

My problem is that this new entry is not one I plot. It comes from the fitting tool that I added directly in the figure. But I don't want it to show as a separate label.

There is no way to manually fetch the name of the handle and then turn it off or remove it manually?

[Sean de Wolski]

There might be a way to do this by removing children from the Legend and from shortening the string property:

get(hLegend)

Then use set() to change the ones you need.

Answer 2

[Laura F]

I hope, that I understand the question right. I had the same problem and solved it like this:

Lgnd = legend('show','Orientation','horizontal');
Lgndstr = Lgnd.String(1:2);
Lgnd.String = Lgndstr;