From: Alexander on
"abby Drake" <abbygracedrake(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message <fcm4ge$5uq$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...
> Jerome Briot <dutmatlab(a)yahoo.fr> wrote in message
> <fcjh4i$25b$2(a)news.netfinity.fr>...
> > Hi,
> >
> > help text
> >
> http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/text.html
> >
> > Jérôme
>
> Hi -
>
> Thanks for the link. It seems though that
> text(x,y,z,'string') only labels one set of coordinates - I
> have over 100 individual data points that all need unique
> names. Is there a trick I'm missing? Sorry - really am new
> to this.
>
> Thanks again.
> Abby

Abby,
The simplest way is to just loop over your string values. e.g.

for k = 1:num_strings
text(x(k),y(k),string_var(k,:))
end

This will place the string stored in the kth row of string_var at each x_k,y_k point.
-Alex