Problem 823. Find similar/related functions

Created by Matthew Eicholtz

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J.R.! Menzinger on 15 Nov 2012

The are more fucntions added to the "see also" of the function 'help' (maybe until the last release).

Dan on 11 Mar 2013

Update test suite

Matthew Eicholtz on 7 Jul 2013

Test suite has been updated and solutions rescored. My apologies for the inconvenience.

Rafael S.T. Vieira on 29 Aug 2020

The test suite is outdated. The lookfor command no longer appears at the See-also section of the help command, and the See-also section of the command which has way more functions than listed in the test suite (MATLAB version R2020a).

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