How to plot a text data column from an excel file in MATLAB?

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SarahQ

Joined Dec 6, 2013
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Hello, I have imported in Matlab an excel file that contains two columns, one with numeric values, and the other one with text values. The first 5 rows can be seen below:

ABF-E 0.34

HJK-D -0.54

GHKL-I 1.34

FPLO-5 2.3

KKJLL-T 0.98

I need to plot the numeric column on the Y axis and the text column on the X axis. I can easily work with the numeric column using xlsread and plot, but I can not manage plotting the text column. How could I do it?.

I have written the following code, but I don't know what to do for the x Axis:

filename = 'MyData.xlsx';

Sheet = 2

xlRange = 'B1:B60';

Yaxis = xlsread (filename,Sheet,xlRange);

Xaxis = ????????;

plot(Xaxis,Yaxis)


I would be very grateful if somebody could help me.
 
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