How to make nonumeric x-axis values for Bar Charts

Hello all,

I want to use the MATLAB bar plot to plot some data. I have these data that i've imported from excel (4 Rows and 2 columns).

40 Feat = 50.52 60 Feat = 36.60 90 Feat = 46.78 120 Feat = 32.56

How do i plot a bar graph with the x-axis labeled as '40 Feat','60 Feat', '90 Feat' and so on...

I have done this, but the x-axis does not display what i intend to do. The x-axis shows nothing

%read excel data to plot

[numDat,txtDat]=xlsread('BarPlot.xlsx');
x = numDat(:,1);
y = txtDat(:,1);

bar(x);
set(gca,'xtick',1:9,'xticklabel',y);

Answer 1

[Wayne King]

 Y = [50.52 36.60 46.78 32.56];
 bar(Y)
 set(gca,'xticklabel',{'40 feet','60 feet','120 feet'})