Removing minor ticks in x-axis of semilogx plot in matlab

Question

Here is an example of code

x = 0:1000;
y = log(x);
semilogx(x,y)

I want to remove the small tick marks between 10^0 and 10^1 on the x-axis.

I tried:

set(gca,'XminorTick','off')

but it didn't work

Answer 1

There is really no good way to do this for good reason. It is always best to make it explicit that a log scale is used for a plot.

If you really want, the easiest thing to do would be to perform a log transform on your data and plot it on a regular linear scale. Then specify custom tick labels to make it appear to be a logarithmic scale.

%// Plot after performing log transform of your xdata
plot(log10(x), y)

%// Tick locations
ticks = 0:3;

%// Create custom tick labels
labels = arrayfun(@(x)sprintf('10^%d', x), ticks, 'uni', 0);

%// Update the ticks and ticklabels
set(gca, 'xtick', ticks, 'XTickLabels', labels)