There are only four line styles available in MATLAB: 'solid', 'dotted', 'dashdot', and 'dashed'. For more information on available line styles colors and symbols type:
doc plot
at the MATLAB command prompt.
To work around this issue you can use traditional plotting techniques in MATLAB to simulate, for example, a '|' linestyle.
Here is an example which takes two vectors, "x" and "y", and reformats them so that a simple plot statement will generate a '|' graph. The example inserts 2 new elements between each original element of the old vector. Then, NaN values are inserted into both "x" and "y "to create a break in the data set. Next, a small increment "y + a" is inserted into the new "y" matrix to give each point height.
function h = plotbar(x,y)
%PLOTBAR Plot two vectors simulating a '|' linestyle
% h = plotbar(x,y) returns a handle to the line created.
x = x(:);
y = y(:);
newx = zeros(1,length(x)*3);
newx(1:3:end) = x;
newx(2:3:end) = x;
newx(3:3:end) = nan;
newy = zeros(1,length(y)*3);
newy(1:3:end) = y;
newy(2:3:end) = y+((max(y)-min(y))/20);
newy(3:3:end) = nan;
h = plot(newx,newy);
Here are some examples of the use of this function:
plotbar(1:10,1:10);
plotbar(rand(10),rand(10));
plotbar(magic(5),inv(magic(5)));
