Problem 77. Clean the List of Names

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rifat on 2 Jun 2014

I used lower() and unique().Runs fine on my R2010a version. shows error here.

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Peter Wittenberg on 29 Apr 2012

My MATLAB (2011a) doesn't allow the use of 'stable' as an option. Is this a very new addition?

Ben Petschel on 30 Apr 2012

yes it's new in r2012a

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