Problem 1036. Cell Counting: How Many Draws?

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Qin-Yong on 15 Jan 2021

function draws = how_many_draws(games)
draws=sum(count(games,'D'));
end

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SJ Won on 8 Jul 2019

Can someone help? I'm trying to learn how to use cellfun and I don't understand it completely.

Ned Gulley on 9 Jul 2019

Here's one way you can use cellfun to solve this problem. I made an anonymous function called isDraw.

isDraw = @(letter) letter=='D'
d = cellfun(isDraw,games)
draws = sum(d)

JM Lippmann on 22 Oct 2020

Use contains to check how many elements == 'D', then sum

draws = sum(contains(games,'D'))

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YiXiao Yu on 28 Jan 2021

draws = sum(strcmp(games, 'D'));

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