Given a list of names in a cell array, remove any duplications that result from different capitalizations of the same string. So if
names_in = {'bert','arthur','Bert','Fred'};the
names_out = clean_list(names_in)
results in
names_out = {'bert','arthur','Fred'};Always take the first occurrence of the duplicated string
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I used lower() and unique().Runs fine on my R2010a version. shows error here.