Counting elements in cell array

Hi suppose I have a column of different label of ant, cat, dog and fish formatted as cell in matlab, how do I count how many "ant", "dog","cat" and "fish" are there in total in the cell column?

Answer 1

[KSSV]

If C is your cell array of strings.

n = nnz(strcmp(C,'cat')); 

Answer 2

[Rohith Nomula]

You can try this for a specific column of a cell array

Suppose in the 2nd column you have elements

labels=NameofYourCellArray(:,2);
nnz(ismember(labels,'dog'))

This gives you count of all the labels name 'dog' in a specific column