title: Matlab - How to use strings instead of numbers in bar figure
body: <p>I want to obtain a Matlab figure using the <code>bar</code> function but when the actual figure is plotted instead of displaying the numbers underneath each bar I want to display which represents that actual value plotted.</p>
  
  <p>For example I am having the vector <code>x = [1 2 3]</code> and instead of showing 1, 2 and 3 beneath each plotted bar, I want to display a string corresponding to one of these values <code>y = {'sam'; 'alan'; 'ellie'}</code></p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZPko9.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Could you please explain how could I obtain this?</p>