xlabel not working inside a function

Hey all,

I am trying to create a simple funciton

function scatter_plot(x, y, xlabel, ylabel)
scatter(x,y,'filled');
xlabel(xlabel)
ylabel(ylabel)
end

However this does not work at the xlabel line. Why? The same code if I take it out of the function works very well. I'm not wanting to copy paste this code for all my scatter plots. In addition, I may want to change some formatting in future, and again, having a function would be ideal.

Answer 1

[Dave B]

You've named the function's parameters xlabel and ylabel. So within the function xlabel and ylabel are variables, not functions. Simply choose a different name:

function scatter_plot(x, y, xlbl, ylbl)
scatter(x,y,'filled');
xlabel(xlbl)
ylabel(ylbl)
end

[Sankalp Garud]

Super! Thanks!