TickLabelFormat with exponential format without precision

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I would like to make a plot with x-y axes in exponential format with 0 precition, i.e., 10^{n}. If I used
ax.XAxis.TickLabelFormat='%0.0e",
matlab gives me a figure in a style of 1x10^{n}. I would like to remove "1x". If I use
ax.XAxis.TickLabelFormat='%g",
matlab sometimes gives me the format of "10^{n}" but sometimes it becomes like "0.00001".
How can I fix this format in "10^{n}"?

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 30 Jan 2019
ax.XAxis.Exponent = 0;
A value of 0 is default when there is not much data, but when you specifically set the value of 0 then ax.XAxis.ExponentMode becomes 'manual' so it would know not to override the setting.

syrup
syrup on 30 Jan 2019
Thanks for your answer. But this was not what I inteded. My figure is log plot and the current xticklabel is
{1x10^{-2} 1x10^{-1} 1x10^{0} 1x10^{1} }
Iwould like to change this into
{10^{-2} 10^{-1} 10^{0} 10^{1} }
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 30 Jan 2019
Ah. In that case you will need to set xticks yourself, and you will need to set xtickslabels yourself. You cannot use TickLabelFormat for this purpose.
syrup
syrup on 31 Jan 2019
Thanks for your comments. I will make xticklabels manually.

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Luna
Luna on 30 Jan 2019
Edited: Luna on 30 Jan 2019
just use logaritmic axis with semilogx:
i = 1:10;
x = 10.^i;
y = rand(1,numel(x));
figure;
hPlot = semilogx(x,y);
Here is the link: semilogx

syrup
syrup on 31 Jan 2019
Thank you for your comments. Unfortunarly, even if I use "semilogx", the xtick sometimes becomes 0.01.
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Luna
Luna on 31 Jan 2019
Maybe latex interpreter looks better if you want. It does not give 10^2 but shows .
set(gca,'TickLabelInterpreter', 'LaTeX');
syrup
syrup on 31 Jan 2019
Thanks. But this does not change the precision of xtick label again. Anyway, I will change the xtick format manually.

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Ignacio Barranco Granged
Ignacio Barranco Granged on 18 May 2021
I have a similar issue. I have various subplots, I use the same code to generate all of them (specifying the ticks), but I do not know why in the first one the axis is shown as 1x10^ while on the rest of subplots is only 10^.
Have you managed to find a solution?
Thanks!

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