Append/Alter string in Title

I would like to append additional text to the title of a plot. How do I "get" the title string in order to append the added text and replace the title with the modified string?

The help tells me how to replace the title, but I want to add, say, a date, or filename.

Answer 1

[Wayne King]

   plot(randn(100,1));
   h = title('Test');
   origtitle = get(h,'String');

   set(h,'String',[origtitle ' 2'])

[John Petersen]

Thankyou! That helps. I use a function that plots a figure but does not return any handles. I can get the figure handle after it plots with get(gca), but is there a way to get the title handle with only the figure handle available? I could change the function to pass the plot handle, but then the calls to it would need to be changed and there might be other users.

[Daniel Shub]

The terminology matters here: Figure->Axis->Object. The gca function returns the handle to the current Axis, not the Figure. The plot handle (presumably the handle returned by plot), is a handle to an Object.

The axis object has a child object called Title. You can get this with h = get(gca, 'Title'). The h from this command will be identical to the h in Wayne's answer.

[John Petersen]

That clears up my followup question. Thankyou!