countStrings

This is a very simple function, that counts (repeating) strings within a cell array and returns unique strings with corresponding number.

numberOfStrings = countStrings(string_ori,varargin)

The function selects the unique string entries (n) from a cell array with m string entries and counts their number/replicates.
It returns a cell array with the name of the unique string entries in the first column and the number of corresponding replicates in the second column.

numberOfStrings = countStrings(string_ori,sort)
Optionally the output can be sorted according to number. sort = 1: returns sorted output variable