I understand that you wish to limit the count of repeating elemets in your cell array to a maximum of 3 and then do some operations on that cell array.
- To achieve the desired result, you can use convert the cell array to a matrix using 'cell2mat' function.
- Then you can use functions like 'unique' and 'accumarray' to find the unique elements of the array and their respective counts.
- Then using a loop, all the elements can be appended to an array with the maximum count of the repeating elements to be 3 using the function 'repmat'. Here is an example:
% I have taken 'uniqueData' as the array obtained after using the 'unique' function
% I have taken 'counts' as the array obtained after using 'accumarray' function
output = {};
for i = 1:length(uniqueData)
element = uniqueData(i);
count = counts(i);
% Append limited elements to output
output = [output, repmat({element}, 1, min(count, 3))];
end
You can check this MATLAB answer: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/336500-finding-the-indices-of-duplicate-values-in-one-array
You can also refer to the following MathWorks documentations to knwo more about these functions:
Hope this helps! Thanks.
