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Cell arrays of strings in "sort" and "unique"
From: |
Keith Goodman |
Subject: |
Cell arrays of strings in "sort" and "unique" |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Sep 2004 15:19:38 -0700 |
I noticed that the functions "sort and "unique" do not support cell
arrays of strings. And that sort does not support strings.
As a work around for unique, I'm using
function [z,i] = unique_cell(x)
x = x(:);
y = str2num(num2str(-1*char(x)));
[ignore,i] = unique(y);
z = x(i,:);
Could the above technique of converting a cell array to a char array
to a number matrix to a string array to a number array be used in sort
and unique to handle cell arrays of strings?
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- Cell arrays of strings in "sort" and "unique",
Keith Goodman <=