Unique for cell array of string

This function 'uniqueStrCell' performs 'unique' for cell array of string.
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Updated 14 Apr 2015

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The built-in 'UNIQUE' function in MATLAB will report errors if the input cell contains different types of variables.
% This function 'uniqueStrCell' performs 'UNIQUE' for cell array of string.
% The output cell 'out' will include only string cells and numeric cells converted to strings
% , and exclude NaN and empty cells.
% Example:
% inputStrCell={'ek','wekf', 29, NaN, [],'we'};
% out = uniqueStrCell(inputStrCell);
% >> out = {'ek' 'we' 'wekf' '29'}
%
% Acknowledgement:
% This function greatly benefits from Jan Simon's comments. The previous version was errorful.
% See 'unique' for more information

Cite As

Wei-Rong Chen (2024). Unique for cell array of string (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/50476-unique-for-cell-array-of-string), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

MATLAB Release Compatibility
Created with R2008a
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Version Published Release Notes
1.1.0.0

Update greatly benefits from Jan Simon's comments.

1.0.0.0