specifying the handle as you plot

if I try to plot the following:

plot(0.5,0.5)

Is there any way to specify what handle the object will have while using plot? I want to avoid looking through the children of my axes, i.e.

handles = get(gca,'children')

and just be able to change the settings of that one object with:

set(handles(?),'xdata',1.5)

Thanks

Answer 1

[Honglei Chen]

h = plot(0.5,0.5)

returns the handle in h

[Stephen]

ahhh, of course! thank you so much!

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

 Record the output of plot() and use that, such as

h = plot(0.5, 0.5)

Then you can

set(h, 'xdata', 1.5)

[Stephen]

thanks :)