Given a list of names in a cell array, remove any duplications that result from different capitalizations of the same string. So if
names_in = {'bert','arthur','Bert','Fred'};the
names_out = clean_list(names_in)
results in
names_out = {'bert','arthur','Fred'};Always take the first occurrence of the duplicated string
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rifat
on 2 Jun 2014
I used lower() and unique().Runs fine on my R2010a version. shows error here.
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Peter Wittenberg
on 29 Apr 2012
My MATLAB (2011a) doesn't allow the use of 'stable' as an option. Is this a very new addition?
Ben Petschel
on 30 Apr 2012
yes it's new in r2012a
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