single "x-axis graph axis numbers code" to work multi plots

In the code below, is it possible to implement changing the x-axis numbers to display in significant figures instead of the exponent form:

curtick = get(gca, 'XTick');
set(gca, 'XTickLabel', cellstr(num2str(curtick(:))));

by using this code once for the multi subplots instead of putting to code in each subplots?

% Frequency vector
x = 10:1000;
% Phase noise vector
y = 10:1000;
% Graph settings
subplot(2, 2, 1);
semilogx(x,y); grid on;
title('Pass1 Response');
xlabel('Frequency (Hz)'); ylabel('Amplitude');
subplot(2, 2, 2);
semilogx(x,y); grid on;
title('Data after Pass1');
xlabel('Frequency (Hz)'); ylabel('Amplitude');
subplot(2, 2, 3);
semilogx(x,y); grid on;
title('Pass 2 Response');
xlabel('Frequency (Hz)'); ylabel('Amplitude');
subplot(2,2,4);
semilogx(x,y); grid on; 
title('Data after Pass 2');
xlabel('Offset Frequency (Hz)'); ylabel('Amplitude');

Or is there a simpler method to have all the x-axis display in significant numbers for the subplots instead of using the above code for each subplot?

Answer 1

[Kelly Kearney]

If you save the handles of your subplots, you can apply the function to all axes, either in a loop or via arrayfun afterwards:

% Frequency vector
x = 10:1000;
% Phase noise vector
y = 10:1000;
% Graph settings

ttl = {'Pass1 Response', ...
       'Data after Pass1', ...
       'Pass 2 Response', ...
       'Data after Pass 2'};
for ii = 1:4
    ax(ii) = subplot(2,2,ii);
    semilogx(x,y);
    grid on;
    title(ttl{ii});
    ax(ii).XTickLabel = strtrim(cellstr(num2str(ax(ii).XTick')));
end

[monkey_matlab]

Thanks for your response, however, I guess that I oversimplified my plots. The y data is different for each plot. So for Pass 1 it would actually be `semilogx(x, y1)`, for data after Pass1 ,it would be `semilogx(x, y2)`...and so on. If this is the case, do I also put an index to the y, like y{ii}?

[Kelly Kearney]

Yes, if you're going to apply the same analysis/plotting/etc. to several datasets, I'd recommend storing them in arrays that can be easily referenced by index. In this example, either a 991 x 4 array (so you can reference y(:,1), y(:,2), ...) or a 1 x 4 cell array of vectors ( y{1}, y{2}, ...).

A little data storage planning ahead of time can make your code a lot easier to read, maintain, and change down the road.