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Counting elements in cell array

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tinkiewinkie
tinkiewinkie on 24 Jun 2020
Answered: Rohith Nomula on 24 Jun 2020
Hi suppose I have a column of different label of ant, cat, dog and fish formatted as cell in matlab, how do I count how many "ant", "dog","cat" and "fish" are there in total in the cell column?

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KSSV
KSSV on 24 Jun 2020
Edited: KSSV on 24 Jun 2020
If C is your cell array of strings.
n = nnz(strcmp(C,'cat'));

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Rohith Nomula
Rohith Nomula on 24 Jun 2020
You can try this for a specific column of a cell array
Suppose in the 2nd column you have elements
labels=NameofYourCellArray(:,2);
nnz(ismember(labels,'dog'))
This gives you count of all the labels name 'dog' in a specific column

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