Count strings occurrences and plot histogram

Question

Is there any straightforward way to create a histogram from a cell array like the one below? The spacing between the consecutive bars should be exactly the same and the labe

Answer 1

You can also use the histogram function as follows:

[C,~,ic] = unique(A);

fig1 = figure;
axes1 = axes('Parent',fig1,'XTickLabel',C,'XTick',1:length(C));
hold(axes1,'on');

histogram(ic)