how to change the sequence of the legend

Question

I want to change the sequence of the legend.

See the figure. I want the sequence to be: green and data2, blue and data3, black and data4, red and data1.

Could anyone give a demo?

Answer 1

Change the order in which the plots are added to the figure, and then call legend normally. That should do it.

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You can also do it as follows. First get handles to the individual plots:

h1 = plot(1:5);
hold on
h2 = plot(11:15, 'r');

Then call legend specifying the order:

legend([h1 h2],'plot1','plot2')

or

legend([h2 h1],'plot2','plot1')

Answer 2

In case, you have already made the plots or if you added some plot at the end, which want to reorder to somewhere in middle, you can try this way:

1) Go to show Plot Tools and Dock Figure.

2) Delete the data (which you want to move to bottom). Then undo delete.

3) Refresh legend.