MATLAB: [GUI] How do you get only one element in a listbox

Question

I know you are able to obtain all the elements in a string from the listbox with:

get(handles.listbox1, 'String')

But what if I only want the second or fourth element in the listbox?

Thanks in advance <3

Answer 1

You have to read in the whole thing anyway. Then get the value property and use that to index into the string.

listboxItems = get(handles.listbox1, 'string');
selectedItems = get(handles.listbox1, 'value');
selectedItem = listboxItems(selectedItems);