How to generate graph for variable names?

I have a 285768x1 cell containing 3 different variables 'standing' 'step' .. which each represent a behaviour at every 1/500s. I am wanting to visualise this data by labelling each behaviour accordingly somehow. Im not sure how I can do this. Is there a way to find each variable in the cell, label it and plot it on a line grah with a colour?

Thankyou for your time :)

[Walter Roberson]

You have a cell array of character vectors, the entries of which can be 'standing', 'step', and one other particular character vector? Or the character vectors contain those phrases in part, such as perhaps 'subject is standing', 'took a step', 'went back to standing' ?

Have you considered categorical() ?

[Katrina Anderson]

I have a cell array of 'standing' 'step' 'weightshifting' in this particular dataset. I will eventually have a few more.

No i havent. I will look that up now