MATLAB: Unknown plot data showing up in figure

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Hi all,

I am using the figure command to plot 5 figures. Each figure has 2 or 3 plots using loglog, semilogx, etc.

The first two figures only have two plots whereas the third and fourth figures have three plots on them.

The problem is that the third figure is showing an extra plot that I didn't specifiy which also overwrites one of the three legends specified for this plot. If I remove the third figure the problem is transferred to the fourth figure (now third).

Any ideas would be much appreciated?

kind regards James

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Apologies. Answered. One of the plots in the forth figure was using a two dimensional array rather than just one dimension of the array data.

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