Only close specific figures?

Currently I use this code to close all figures.

figHandles=findobj('Type','figure');
figHandles(1)=[];
close(figHandles)

Say I have up to 5 figures for A data, and 5 other figures for B data. If I "reset" A data, I only want to close those figures, and leave the B data figures open. I assume it would be along the lines of instead of just doing plot, I could do A(i)=plot and B(i)=plot, and close close A or B?

Answer 1

[the cyclist]

Are you able to just keep a vector of the figure handles (for A and B separately) as you create them, such that you can close the ones you want? For example,

>> handleA(1) = figure;
>> handleA(2) = figure;
>> % etc
>> handleB(1) = figure;
>> handleB(2) = figure;
>> % etc

Then, to close only A figures, you can do

>> close(handleA)

I guess I'm having trouble understanding your use case.

Also, regarding closing all figures, is there a reason you don't just use

>> close all

[Jared]

That will do the trick. No need for me to keep a vector in this case as I'll always close all of A or B.

I don't use close all as it will also close the GUI window.

Answer 2

[Thomas]

You can assign different handles to the individual figures:

fig1 = figure;
fig2 = figure;
close(fig1)