How can I find the most frequent character in say a list of words (cell array of strings)?

How can I find the most frequent character in say a list of words (cell array of strings)?

For example a list like: hello, what, is, your, name,

Answer 1

[Niko]

Are you looking for the most frequent character in each word? if so you can do

cellfun(@mode,{'hello','what','is','your','name'})

which gives you the string 'laioa'.

or if you want the most frequent character in all words,

mode(strjoin({'hello','what','is','your','name'},''))

gives you the character 'a'.

[Niko]

You don't need the braces, so something like

cellfun(@mode,dictionary)

will work.

[Niko]

if you have

dictionary={'hello','what','is','your','name'};
index=[0,1,1,0,1];

then

dictionary(logical(index))

will give you {'what','is','name'}.

I'm not sure if this is what you are asking...