How to count the number of different strings in a string list?

Dear All

I would need some help on this:

I have the following string list:

AAA

ABB

CDE

ABB

CCR

AAA

FDR

I would need to count the different strings in this list which is, in this example 5, and this would be my output.

The acual list may have undreds of strings.

Many thanks in advance!

Para

Answer 1

[Mischa Kim]

Hi, use

str    = {'AAA','ABB','CDE','ABB','CCR','AAA','FDR'};
numstr = numel(unique(str))

[Paramonte]

Dear Mischa

Thank you for your speedy reply.

Your solution worked for us.

Regards

[Richard Cornish]

This is useful. I want a frequency plot of each unique string - any ideas?

[Steven Lord]

str    = {'AAA','ABB','CDE','ABB','CCR','AAA','FDR'};
histogram(categorical(str))