Problem trying to remove numbers from plot axes

I am trying to remove all numbers from the X- and Y- axes of a plot. However, there seems to be a problem with the 'set' functionality, despite previous threads indicating that problems had been fixed.

I'm running 64-bit matlab R2010b on a 64-bit windows machine.

Here is example code:

clc; close all; figure
plot([1:10,2:8],[9:-1:0,1:7],'.')

get(gca,'XTick') % this works okay
get(gca,'XTickLabel') % this works okay

set(gca,'XTickLabel',{[]}) % Subindex error
set(gca,'XTickLabel',[]) % Subscript error
set(gca,'XTick',[]) % Subscript error
set(gca,'xtick',[]) % Subscript error

With the last 4 lines I get error:

??? Subscript indices must either be real positive integers or logicals.

Or:

??? Error using ==> subsindex Function 'subsindex' is not defined for values of class 'cell'.

Am I doing this right?

Thanks,

Matthew

[Jan]

Is this the complete error message? Please care for copying all information from the message, because this most likely contian the solution of the problem already.

[matthew]

it's the complete error. here's the printout from the command window:

>> set(gca,'XTickLabel',[]) % error ??? Subscript indices must either be real positive integers or logicals.

>> set(gca,'XTickLabel',{[]}) % error ??? Error using ==> subsindex Function 'subsindex' is not defined for values of class 'cell'.

>> set(gca,'XTick',[]) % error ??? Subscript indices must either be real positive integers or logicals.

>> set(gca,'xtick',[]) % error ??? Subscript indices must either be real positive integers or logicals.

Answer 1

[Jan]

Did you define a variable called "set"? Check this by adding this before the failing command:

which set -all

Shadowing built-in functions in Matlab is a bad idea and leads to such bugs frequently.

[matthew]

ah, thanks so much... basic mistake.