making a text figure

Hi,

I'm trying to use the the following code to print some text onto a figure window. As an example, I am using the following line of code

figure;
text(0.5,0.5,'Hello world');

However, when I run the code, I get the error message:

??? Attempt to call constructor text with incorrect letter case.

however, using Text( ) does not work either.

if i try to use "doc help", it shows that i am doing calling this function correctly, but if i use "help text", matlab says

No help found for text.m.

How can i fix this?

thanks in advance

Answer 1

[Kelly Kearney]

It sounds like something might be overshadowing Matlab's text function. What do you get with this command?

 which text -all

[aaa]

this is correct. i mistakenly named my own m file as text.m and it overshadows the built in function.

Thank you

Answer 2

[Nirmal Gunaseelan]

TEXT usually lives under $matlabroot\toolbox\matlab\graph2d\text - if you do not find it there, I'd re-install MATLAB.

Answer 3

[aaa]

Hi, is there another way i can print some text then? I don't think i would be able to reinstall matlab without contacting the system admin which could potentially take a very long time.

[Walter Roberson]

I agree with the other two: this problem is usually caused by having your own text() function.