tick labels and the scaling exponent - where is the string stored ?

I'm using R2009a and Win7 64bit.

I'm looking, where the scaling exponent of the ticks is stored. Try:

 xlim([100000 200000])

Looking into the plot I find the ticklabels [1 1.2 ... 2] an exponent 10^5 at the end of the line.

Checking the ticking with

 get(gca,'XTickLabel')

I get [1 1.2 ... 2] but I do not find the exponent [10^5]. Where is this string hidden ?

My motivation to find it out is, that this 10^5 always remains when I use

 datetick

and I don't know how to delete it.

We discussed a very similar point in http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/4515-removing-ticks and found there is a bug but I think that thread might be too long to add this question without loosing clarity.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

There is no documented user-accessible property that stores the exponent.

Answer 2

[hans]

So I can't delete it ?

When I use datetick, I always get the 10^5 from the original ticks remaining while the ticks are replaced by the datestrings.

Is there a trick, to get rid of them ?