MATLAB: Removal of duplicate entries and counting them

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Hi, Sorry if I have asked a dumb question, but I am new to matlab. So please bear with me. I want to create a matlab script that calculates the number of duplicate entries from an array and also removes them. Can you please let me know how can it be done ? I will further explain my question with the help of an example.
a[] = the the she he she she
so the output should be :
the – 2 times she – 3 times he – 1 time/s
I was thinking of using the for loop and comparing each and every elements with one another. But I am having problems in eliminating duplicate data.
Thank you, Sean

Best Answer

You could use a loop, or do something like this:
a = {'the' 'the' 'she' 'he' 'she' 'she'}
[V,N,X] = unique(a);
N = histc(X,1:length(N));
Now look at V and N. N tells you that there is 1 he, 3 she and 2 the.
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