Problem 53. Duplicates
Write a function that accepts a cell array of strings and returns another cell array of strings with only the duplicates retained.
Examples:
Input strs = {'a','b','a'}
Output dups is 'a' Input strs = {'a','b','c'}
Output dups is Empty cell array: 0-by-1
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Jean-Marie Sainthillier
on 24 May 2014
Why not just an isequal(correct,result) in the tests?
Consequently, a lot of solutions leave duplicates in the result.
Erik Zdansky
on 7 Feb 2016
How should higher multiplets be treated?
mehmet muhammet cesur
on 8 Jun 2020
güzell
Ahmed Nazir
on 1 Oct 2020
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Useful function => unique, countcats, categorical
Solution:
https://github.com/AhmedNazir/MatlabCody/blob/master/duplicates.m
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