MATLAB: Error when using clearvars

clearvarserroryosemite

After updating my mac to Yosemite, everytime I call the function clearvars (e.g.

clearvars x y;

or:

clearvars -except z

)I have the following error:

Error using strjoin (line 14) Expected input to be one of these types:

char

Instead its type was cell.

Error in clearvars>createPattern (line 188) pattern = sprintf('(%s)$', strjoin(variableArgs, '|'));

Error in clearvars (line 70) clearVarPat = createPattern(clearVarArgs, flags.regexpClear);

Any help to solve this issue?

Best Answer

Alberto ran the command

 which strjoin -all

and noticed that he had a "creepy" strjoin.m file in the path.

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