Why does an empty duplicate figure box appear?

Below is part of a code that i am using to plot some scatter plots. The problem is that for every loop i am getting two plots. The first is the required graph and the second is just a figure box. Unfortunately, that empty figure duplicate gets saved.

I don`t know what am i doing wrong.

if i=length(A)
 if i==3 
  set(figure,'position',[0, 0, 800, 250]);
 plotdaily = scatter(dat,variable,[],black,'filled');
 hold on
        plotdaily2=scatter(dat2,variable2,'MarkerFaceColor',gray,'MarkerEdgeColor',gray,...
        'MarkerFaceAlpha',.4,'MarkerEdgeAlpha',.4)
        box on 
        title('Total AOD at Eureka');
    elseif i ==4 
        set(figure,'position',[0, 0, 800, 250]);
        plotdaily = scatter(dat,variable,[],red,'filled');
        hold on
        plotdaily2=scatter(dat2,variable2,'MarkerFaceColor',pink,'MarkerEdgeColor',red,...
     'MarkerFaceAlpha',.4,'MarkerEdgeAlpha',0.4);       
        box on;
        title('Fine AOD at Eureka');

grid on 
saveas(figure, sprintf('Daily_Average%d.jpg',i))
end 
end

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

In your code, replace all references to figure to become gcf

[Yasmin Samy]

Thanks Walter! i had to add 'figure' in the elseif though because the next plot was done on the first one when i didn`t. [every iteration plots from a different loop]. Thank you!