Problem 242. Make a function that returns its own character count

Created by Ned Gulley

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Khaled Hamed on 18 Aug 2012

Was only missing the transpose trick!

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Binbin Qi on 23 May 2012

Sorry,:)

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Alfonso Nieto-Castanon on 20 Mar 2012

sorry for cheating, David's entry made me do it :)

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Alfonso Nieto-Castanon on 3 Feb 2012

this is strange... this works on my computer (win64 running matlab7.7) but not on the servers, perhaps is some different behavior of histc in the newer version? (and why not use 'hist' or 'accumarray' instead?)

Ned Gulley on 3 Feb 2012

Just using inspection, I see a space in your function (between "function" and "x9") whereas your code predicts no spaces.

Alfonso Nieto-Castanon on 3 Feb 2012

thanks for the help! it seems in my version textscan(fid,'%c','CommentStyle','%','Whitespace','') removes the spaces from the resulting string...

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