Change x-axis grid lines

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monkey_matlab
monkey_matlab on 21 Oct 2015
Commented: Chad Greene on 21 Oct 2015
Hello,
In my MWE below, I wanted to know how to add minor grid lines of 0.001 to the x-axis?
Here is my code:
% Select file
clear;
clc;
[FileName,PathName] = uigetfile('*.txt','Select data file');
fid = fopen( strcat(PathName,FileName) ,'rt' );
% Read the file and store into matrix v
i = 0;
v = [0 0];
while feof(fid) == 0
buffer = fscanf(fid, '%f', 2);
buffer = buffer';
if i == 0;
v = buffer;
else
v = vertcat(v,buffer);
end
i = i + 1;
end
% Frequency vector
x = v(:,1);
y = v(:,2);
plot(x,y);
grid on;
title('Spectrum @ 380.025MHz');
xlabel('Frequency (MHz)'); ylabel('Amplitude');
return
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Chad Greene
Chad Greene on 21 Oct 2015
A note: Get into the habit of using k as a counter because in some cases Matlab will think you mean the sqrt(-1) when you use i or j. You can usually overwrite i and j safely, but when it causes problems it can be tough to debug.

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Chad Greene
Chad Greene on 21 Oct 2015
You can turn on minor ticks by
set(gca,'XMinorTick','on')
and/or
set(gca,'XMinorGrid','on')
but exact values of the minor grid are hard to control. You may simply plot thin vertical lines at the values you desire by
plot(repmat(380.01:0.001:380.035,2,1),repmat([-140 0]',1,26),':','linewidth',0.5,'color',[.5 .5 .5])
hold on
plot(x,y,'b','linewidth',2)
I made the grid lines above quite thin and subtle because grids are only useful to viewers who are inspecting a plot with a straight edge. The muted grid is good enough for the detail-oriented viewer to see. For anyone who is glancing at the plot to get the big picture, grids are nothing but clutter, IMO.

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