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2.1.1. What is a handle?

A handle is a number assigned by MATLAB to a graphics object. For example, you can have a handle to each object in a plot that contains many objects such as lines, patches, and surfaces. Once you know the handle to an object, you can alter its properties. To find out what properties are associated with each object, see axis , figure , line , patch , surf , root , and image . If you wanted to get the handle to a line when you plot it, you would do the following:

handle=plot(x,y)