Remove only axis lines without affecting ticks and tick labels

Question

Is there a way to remove only the axis lines in the Matlab figure, without affecting ticks and tick labels.

I know that box toggles the upper and righ

Answer 1

There is another undocumented way (applicable to MATLAB R2014b and later versions) of removing the lines by changing the 'LineStyle' of rulers to 'none'.

Example:

figure;
plot(1:4,'o-');  %Plotting some data
pause(0.1);      %Just to make sure that the plot is made before the next step
hAxes = gca;     %Axis handle
%Changing 'LineStyle' to 'none'
hAxes.XRuler.Axle.LineStyle = 'none';  
hAxes.YRuler.Axle.LineStyle = 'none';
%Default 'LineStyle': 'solid', Other possibilities: 'dashed', 'dotted', 'dashdot'

---

^{This is different from Dan's answer which uses the 'visible' property of rulers.}