PLLAB(3plplot)

💖 NAME 💖

pllab — the itty-bitty little routine that writes your labels for you. simple routine to write labels, that's literally her whole job 🎀

So like, quick vibe check first: this is a PLplot API page, PLLAB(3plplot), and she's the easiest way to slap an x label, a y label, and a title onto a plot. No cap. ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pllab(xlabel, ylabel, tlabel)

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay bestie, so pllab is the routine for writing simple labels. That's it. That's the whole assignment. 💅

Need something more complex? Then you go to plmtex(3plplot) instead — she's the fancy one, pllab is the low-effort-but-iconic one. iykyk.

Redacted form: pllab(xlabel, ylabel, tlabel)

This function is used in examples 1, 5, 9, 12, 14-16, 20-22, and 29. Not me showing up in that many examples, she's booked and busy fr fr 👑

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• xlabel (PLCHAR_VECTOR(3plplot), input) — a UTF-8 character string specifying the label for the x axis. so like the little caption under your horizontal axis, and yes it takes UTF-8 💖
• ylabel (PLCHAR_VECTOR(3plplot), input) — a UTF-8 character string specifying the label for the y axis. same energy, vertical this time 🌈
• tlabel (PLCHAR_VECTOR(3plplot), input) — a UTF-8 character string specifying the title of the plot. main character energy on top of your graph 👑

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🌟 AUTHORS 🌟

Many developers (who are credited at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/credits.php) have contributed to PLplot over its long history. like genuinely so many people, a whole squad, and they all ate 🫶

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/documentation.php — go read it bestie, it's giving essential reading 📚

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That's the whole page! 💜 She's short, she's sweet, she's PLLAB(3plplot) from the PLplot API, dated August, 2026. mwah. 🍓