unique values in cell array

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Franco
Franco on 27 Sep 2013
Answered: Wayne King on 27 Sep 2013
I have a cell array with both numerical values and strings
test1 = {1,2,3,'No';1,3,2,'Yes';2,2,2,'Yes'}
I need to find the unique values of each column, regardless of the data type. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks.

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Wayne King
Wayne King on 27 Sep 2013
You could do this:
test1 = {1,2,3,'No';1,3,2,'Yes';2,2,2,'Yes'};
out = unique(cellfun(@num2str,test1,'uni',0));
and then convert the strings with numbers back to numbers.

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