Save all figures using figure title error

Hello,

I have been using the following code (which I found previously on the site but can't find the author, apologies!) to save all my open figures as a MATLAB figures. The MATLAB figure files are named using each figure's title. I am using version 2021b.

FolderName = pathname; % Folder to save figures

FigList = findobj(allchild(0), 'flat', 'Type', 'figure');

for iFig = 1:length(FigList)

FigHandle = FigList(iFig);

ax = findobj(FigHandle, 'type', 'axes');

FigName = ax.Title.String;

set(0, 'CurrentFigure', FigHandle);

savefig(FigHandle, fullfile(FolderName, [FigName '.fig']));

end

I have been using this code for weeks without issue and have encountered this error only recently with the above underlined line FigName = ax.Title.String

ERROR: Intermediate dot '.' indexing produced a comma-separated list with 3 values, but it must produce a single value when followed by subsequent indexing operations.

I need to be able to access the figure's Title, which is a string. If anyone knows how to circumvent this error or another code to access the figure's title, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you!

Answer 1

[Benjamin Thompson]

The figure handle has some properties that may be useful, including Name, Number, and NumberTitle.

figure, plot(1:10,2:2:20);

fig = gcf

>> fig.Name = "Hello World"

fig =

Figure (1: Hello World) with properties:

Number: 1

Name: 'Hello World'

Color: [0.940000000000000 0.940000000000000 0.940000000000000]

Position: [488 342 560 420]

Units: 'pixels'

Show all properties

>> fig.Name

ans =

'Hello World'

[EB]

Thank you!