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

Yair Altman's Undocumented Matlab demonstrates a cleaner way to do this using the undocumented axes rulers:

plot(x,y);
ax1 = gca;
yruler = ax1.YRuler;
yruler.Axle.Visible = 'off';
xruler = ax1.XRuler;
xruler.Axle.Visible = 'off'; %// note you can do different formatting too such as xruler.Axle.LineWidth = 1.5;

A nice feature of this approach is that you can separately format the x and y axis lines.