MATLAB: How to combine multiple columns of a table into one array to plot

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I am creating a table by reading through a file, the table contains the following: 
      Var1           Var2          Var3       Var4     Var5
 9728.015877288  34.21601656  -85.26319543   6120.27   0.71  
 9728.100523585  34.19514296  -85.29652054   2121.33   2.60  
 9728.162613281  33.67647324  -83.90831590   2601.09   2.36  
 9728.178688810  34.17953039  -85.35196003   8092.13   4.57  
 9728.187776872  34.17839105  -85.35730262   8066.19   1.53
Var1 is time in seconds, and I am converting it to hh:mm:ss:SSS. Each row of the table is a "source" that contains the data Var1, Var2, Var3, Var4, Var5. I want to plot converted time vs source, where the user can input the ranges of each variable. 
[FileName,PathName]=uigetfile(':','Select the LYLOUT file');
T=readtable(fullfile(PathName,FileName));
figure('units','normalized','outerposition',[0 0 1 1]); 
prompt1 = {'(1) Enter the lower range of latitude where ' + string(min(T.Var2)) + ' is the minimum: ','(2) Enter upper range of latitude where ' + string(max(T.Var2)) + ' is the maximum: '};
dlgtitle1 = 'Latitude Range Input';
dims = [1 35];
answer1 = str2double(inputdlg(prompt1,dlgtitle1,dims));
prompt2 = {'(1) Enter the lower range of longitude where ' + string(min(T.Var3)) + ' is the minimum: ','(2) Enter upper range of longitude where ' + string(max(T.Var3)) + ' is the maximum: '};
dlgtitle2 = 'Longitude Range Input';
answer2 = str2double(inputdlg(prompt2,dlgtitle2,dims));
prompt3 = {'(1) Enter the lower range of altitude where ' + string(min(T.Var4)) + ' is the minimum: ','(2) Enter upper range of altitude where ' + string(max(T.Var4)) + ' is the maximum: '};
dlgtitle3 = 'Altitude Range Input';
answer3 = str2double(inputdlg(prompt3,dlgtitle3,dims));
prompt4 = {'(1) Enter the lower range of reduced chi squared where ' + string(min(T.Var5)) + ' is the minimum: ','(2) Enter upper range of reduced chi squared where ' + string(max(T.Var5)) + ' is the maximum: '};
dlgtitle4 = 'Reduced chi squared Range Input';
answer4 = str2double(inputdlg(prompt4,dlgtitle4,dims));
idx = T.Var2 >= answer1(1) & T.Var2 <= answer1(2) & T.Var3 >= answer2(1) & T.Var3 <= answer2(2) & T.Var4 >= answer3(1) & T.Var4 <= answer3(2) & T.Var5 >= answer4(1) & T.Var5 <= answer4(2);
timeUTC = seconds(T.Var1);
timeUTC.Format = 'hh:mm:ss.SSS';
plot(timeUTC(idx), [T.Var2(idx), T.Var3(idx), T.Var4(idx), T.Var5(idx)])
ylim([0 inf]);
grid minor;
xlabel('UTC Time');
ylabel('Sources');
title('Time vs Sources');
But instead of combining Var2, Var3, Var4 and Var5 into a variable it plots all of the variables at once. How would I plot the time vs source?

Best Answer

Hello Mark,
From the code, i understand that you need to plot the variables with respective index for selective index of time. (may be use the logic - loop of plots. might work)
t  = [ 0     1     2     3     4     5 ]
v1 = [ 0     2     4     6     8    10 ]
v2 = [ 0     3     6     9    12    15 ]
v3 = [ 0     4     8    12    16    20 ]
var = [v1; v2; v3]
hold on
for n = 1: length(t)
    plot(t(n), [var(1,n), var(2,n), var(3,n)],'o')
end
A short version: 
vars = [T.Var2; T.Var3; T.Var4; T.Var5]   % Assuming Var2, Var3, Var4, Var5 are row vectors
hold on
for n = 1: length(vars)
    plot(timeUTC(idx), vars(n, idx))
end
hold off
Hope this helps.
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