MATLAB: Plotting figures using figure handles

Question

hello guys, i need your help in solving the following problem: i have an open figure and i have done the following:

      fig = gcf;

now i have closed the figure and i want to plot what is inside fig. Is this possible without saving the figure in .fig file? If yes then how can it be done?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Once it's closed, it's gone and the handle, despite the variable still holding the value, is bogus.

Only replotting from the raw data or, as you say, saving to a file will preserve it for posterity.