Count strings occurrences and plot histogram

Question

Is there any straightforward way to create a histogram from a cell array like the one below? The spacing between the consecutive bars should be exactly the same and the labe

Answer 1

If you have access to the statistics toolbox, grp2idx is very useful:

%# sorting is only necessary if the output should be sorted as well
[idx,label] = grp2idx(sort(A)) 

hist(idx,unique(idx));
set(gca,'xTickLabel',label)