unique

Arguments

M

vector or matrix of numbers or strings.

orient

flag with possible values : 1 or "r", 2 or "c"

N

• If orient is not used: Vector of extracted M components sorted in ascending order.
• If orient is used: Matrix of extracted M rows or columns, sorted in lexicographic ascending order.

k

Vector of indices of first encountered occurences, such that N(i) = M(k(i)) or N(i,:) = M(k(i),:) or N(:,i) = M(:,k(i)).

Description

unique(M) returns a vector which retains the unique entries of M in ascending order.

unique(M,"r") or unique(M,1) removes all duplicates of M rows and returns unique rows in lexicographic ascending order.

unique(M,"c") or unique(M,2) removes all duplicates of M columns and returns unique columns in lexicographic ascending order.

Extracted components, rows or columns can be resorted in their initial order by sorting k: [N, k] = unique(M); k = gsort(k,"g",i); N = N(k) [N, k] = unique(M, "c"); k = gsort(k,"g",i); N = N(:, k) [N, k] = unique(M, "r"); k = gsort(k,"g",i); N = N(k, :)

Examples

M = round(2*rand(20,1));

unique(M)
[N,k] = unique(M)

unique(string(M))
[N,k] = unique(string(M))

A = [0,0,1,1;
     0,1,1,1;
     2,0,1,1;
     0,2,2,2;
     2,0,1,1;
     0,0,1,1];
T = 'x'+string(A);

//unique rows

[m,k] = unique(A,'r')
unique(T,'r')

//unique columns
[m,k] = unique(T,'c')
unique(A,'c')

See also

• members — count (and locate) in an array each element or row or column of another array
• gsort — sorting by quick sort algorithm
• vectorfind — finds in a matrix rows or columns matching a vector
• grep — find matches of a string in a vector of strings
• union — extract union components of a vector
• intersect — returns the vector of common values of two vectors