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How to quickly extract a unique list of rows from a cell array?

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So, I have an unacceptably large cell array, with far too many rows to reasonably display, and only 5 columns.
Each column contains a different format (some string, some numeric).
I know that many of the rows of the array are duplicated, so what I would like to do is to quickly and simply remove these duplicates.
Has anyone got a quick way of achieving this?
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Iain
Iain on 7 Jun 2013
Edited: Iain on 7 Jun 2013
Array = {45 654 9841 'ra' 'rb';
45 684 9841 'ra' 'rb';
...
45 654 9841 'ra' 'rb';
45 684 9842 'ra' 'rb';
1 651 91 'ra' 'ra';

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Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 7 Jun 2013
[idx,idx]=unique(cell2mat([cellfun(@num2str,A(:,1:3),'un',0) A(:,4:5)]),'rows')
out=A(idx,:)
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Iain
Iain on 7 Jun 2013
Doesn't work due to the fact my numbers vary in magnitude by more than 10 times.

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