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

A solution that only uses built-in functions

[u,~,n] = unique(A(:));
B = accumarray(n, 1, [], @sum);
bar(B)
set(gca,'XTickLabel',u)