how to grab text from figure's suptitle and subplot titles

I'm familiar with how to grab the title from a simple figure such as this:

htitle = get(gca,'Title');

stitle = htitle.String

This works sufficient for a simple plot/title, but when a figure has subplots (each with a title) and a "suptitle" title on top, the function above seems to grab a title I don't want.

1) How do I specifically grab the suptitle text?

2) How do I grab the title text from say subplot(2,2,1)?

Thank you for your help!

Answer 1

[Kevin Holly]

subplot(2,2,1)
plot(1:10,rand(1,10))
title('pick me');
subplot(2,2,2)
plot(1:10,rand(1,10))
title('not me');
subplot(2,2,3)
plot(1:10,rand(1,10))
title('not me');
subplot(2,2,4)
plot(1:10,rand(1,10))
title('not me');
sgtitle('Select me')

handle = gcf %obtain the handle of the figure (get current figure).

handle = 
  Figure (1) with properties:

      Number: 1
        Name: ''
       Color: [1 1 1]
    Position: [671 661 577 433]
       Units: 'pixels'

  Show all properties

handle.Children %Look at the Children of the figure

ans = 
  5×1 graphics array:

  Text    (Select me)
  Axes    (not me)
  Axes    (not me)
  Axes    (not me)
  Axes    (pick me)

handle.Children(1) %Select first child (the text of the sgtitle)

ans = 
  Text (Select me) with properties:

         String: 'Select me'
       FontSize: 13
     FontWeight: 'normal'
       FontName: 'Helvetica'
          Color: [0 0 0]
    Interpreter: 'tex'

  Show all properties

handle.Children(end) %Select the last child (the axes of subplot(2,2,1)

ans = 
  Axes (pick me) with properties:

             XLim: [0 10]
             YLim: [0 1]
           XScale: 'linear'
           YScale: 'linear'
    GridLineStyle: '-'
         Position: [0.1300 0.5838 0.3347 0.3412]
            Units: 'normalized'

  Show all properties

handle.Children(end).Title %Now select the title

ans = 
  Text (pick me) with properties:

                 String: 'pick me'
               FontSize: 9.9000
             FontWeight: 'bold'
               FontName: 'Helvetica'
                  Color: [0 0 0]
    HorizontalAlignment: 'center'
               Position: [5.0000 1.0167 1.4211e-14]
                  Units: 'data'

  Show all properties

handle.Children(end).Title.String %and now the string of the title

ans = 'pick me'