Problem 1040. Create a Cell array of month-end date strings within a provided date range

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This is a variation of <a href="http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/1039-get-an-array-of-month-ends-in-a-date-range">Get an array of month-ends by T.D.</a> where the result is now a cell array of date strings.For example:<pre class="language-matlab">date_start = datenum('10 Nov 2010');
date_end = datenum('10 Feb 2011');
[dates_me{1:3}] = month_ends(date_start, date_end); 
dates_me
dates_me = 
 '30-Nov-2010' '31-Dec-2010' '31-Jan-2011'
</pre><pre class="language-matlab">The test suite uses
[y{1:3}]=month_ends(d1,d2);
</pre><pre class="language-matlab">Is there a way to receive variable number of cells from a function call?
</pre>J.G pointed out a better Cell array implementation that does not use varargout.
This revised version is <a href="http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/1044-create-a-cell-array-of-month-end-date-strings-within-a-date-range">Challenge 1044</a>Related challenge is <a href="http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/cody/problems/703-usage-of-varargout">Usage of varargout</a>.

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J-G van der Toorn on 20 Nov 2012

You could just use
dates_me = month_ends(date_start, date_end);
to get a variable number of cells in the output. That avoids the user of varargout and the limitation to the number of outputs.

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