MATLAB: Do you have a suggestion for a name of the function

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I have written a nice little function which I would like to put on the File Exchange. However, I am still looking for a short and decent name for it. So I thought to ask here, for inspiration.
The function takes a vector that can contain consecutive identical elements. It returns an index vector that (re-)starts counting from 1 whenever V changes. An example
V = [10 10 10 4 4 10 9 9 9 9 9]
% and a call to MyFunction(V) returns
[ 1 2 3 1 2 1 1 2 3 4 5]
Any suggestions are welcome!

Best Answer

This is similar to Run Length Coding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-length_encoding). You could call it RunLengthCounter