uniq -c

[Mike Miller]

Is there a way to count repetitions of a value in a vector?  In unix/linux 
we could use "uniq -c" to count consecutive identical lines.  Is there 
something analogous in Octave?  If not, can one of you come up with a 
clever scheme for doing this within Octave?  (I've been on this list long 
enough to know that the answer is yes to that last question!)

I really just need the counts and not a list of the values being counted.
Hmm... I just realized that if I had an ordinary 'uniq' function, I could 
get the "uniq -c" this way (for column vector x):

[NN,XX] = hist(x,uniq(x))

Then [NN,XX] would be the "uniq -c" output and XX would actually equal 
uniq(x).

Mike



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