How do I clear a figure?

I am going to be generating a large number of plots and saving them. Each of the plots uses subplot. I'd rather not have to call figure each time to get a fresh figure. Is there some way to erase the plots in the current figure so that new plots can be drawn on it? I searched for "redraw" and "clear figure" and various other things but didn't find anything. I've tried redrawing over, but if the subplot configuration is the same, text gets overwritten.

I suppose I could call subplot(1,1,1) to erase the current configuration (all the plots I want to draw have more than one row or column), and then call subplots again. Does that effectively erase what was there before, or does memory start getting eaten up by an accumulation of plot data?

thanks for any help. This is probably a newby question.

Answer 1

[Razvan]

Use clf

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/clf.html