colstyle

Parse color and style from string.

📝 Syntax

• [linespec, colorspec, markerspec, msg] = colstyle (str)

• [linespec, colorspec, markerspec, msg] = colstyle (str, 'plot')

📥 Input argument

• str - a row vector of character or scalar string: line specification.

• 'plot' - linespec returns 'none' and not '' with this option.

📤 Output argument

• linespec - a string: line type.

• colorspec - a string: color part.

• markerspec - a string: marker part.

• msg - a string: contain the error message string.

📄 Description

colstyle parses color and style from string.

💡 Example

[l, c, m, msg] = colstyle('r:x')
[l, c, m, msg] = colstyle('*')
[l, c, m, msg] = colstyle('*', 'plot')

🔗 See also

colormap.

🕔 History

Version	📄 Description
1.0.0	initial version