How to tell legends from axes in Matlab?

Question

The following stackoverflow qestion:

Matlab: How to obtain all the axes handles in a figure handle?

identifies how to get handles to all of the axes from a figur

Answer 1

From linkaxes, the code you want is:

ax = findobj(gcf,'type','axes','-not','Tag','legend','-not','Tag','Colorbar');

This will return the handles of all the data axes in the current figure.