How to change x-axis to not use scientific notation

I want to display x-axis as 1, 10, 100, and not as 10^0, 10^1...

I tried the code:

ax = gca;

ax.XAxis.Exponent = 0;

But it doesn't work, and I also tried:

curtick = get(gca, 'XTick');

set(gca, 'XTickLabel', cellstr(num2str(curtick(:))));

But the x-axis looks wierd, and instead of being 1, 10, 100, 1000, it keeps repeating 1, 100, 1, 100

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

I have no idea what the problem is, because the posted code works correctly here and on my computer (R2021b) —

x = logspace(0, 3, 5);
y = rand(size(x))*4.5;

figure
semilogx(x, y, 'p')
curtick = get(gca, 'XTick');
set(gca, 'XTickLabel', cellstr(num2str(curtick(:)))); 

figure
scatter(x, y, 150, 'g', 'p', 'filled')
ax = gca;
ax.XScale = 'log';
curtick = ax.XTick;
set(gca, 'XTickLabel', cellstr(num2str(curtick(:)))); 

It works here.

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[Haojue Yu]

I tried it again, it still appears that way, but do you mind explaining a bit how and why this code would work? I saw those in another post, but I am not really sure how they work.

curtick = get(gca, 'XTick');

set(gca, 'XTickLabel', cellstr(num2str(curtick(:))));

[Star Strider]

First, run the code without the trailing semicolon in the ‘curtick’ assignment to see what it returns. I suspect it will only return [0 100].

I did not use the Exponent property in my example, so delete that call and see if it works. Beyond that, I have no idea what the problem could be. Also, use my code along in a separate figure with your data. It looks as though the original plot image was part of a subplot array. That should not be a problem, however if there are different results when plotting it in a different figure, that could point to where the problem might be.

For a detailed explanation, see the documentation for get and set, as they apply to graphics properties. The documentation explains it better than I can.

Since I suspect that there is something wrong with the tick assignment in the plot, this could be an option —

set(gca, 'XTick', [1 10 100 1000], 'XTickLabel',compose('%.0f',[1 10 100 1000]))

just to see if that produces the desired result.

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[Haojue Yu]

Thank you so much, I will check it out, and the last line of code work.

[Star Strider]

As always, my pleasure!

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