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Issue an error if two dynSeries objects with common variable names are concatenated. Added a unitary test.

Compare two one dimensional cells of strings and count the number of common strings. The
optional second argument returns a formated list of common variables.

*Example*

If we have:

A = {'A1'; 'A2'; 'A3'; 'A4'; 'A5'; 'A6'};
B = {'B1'; 'A2'; 'B3'; 'A4'; 'A1'};

then

[n,message] = common_strings_in_cell_arrays(A,B);

returns n=3 and message='A2, A4 and A1'.

Removes a variable form a dynSeries object.

If the names of the variables are not provided when instantiating a dynSeries object
then the default name is of the form Variable_i (i=1,...,N, where N is the number of
variables in the dataset).

+ Prefix variable names with QGROWTH_
+ Prefix tex variable names with \delta_i with i=nothing or 3 depending on the frequency.

 + Prefix variable names with YGROWTH_
 + Prefix tex variable names with \delta_i with i=nothing, 4, 12  or 52 depending on the frequency.

+ Prefix variable names with QDIFF_
+ Prefix tex variable names with \Delta_i with i=nothing or 3 depending on the frequency.

 + Prefix variable names with YDIFF_
 + Prefix tex variable names with \Delta_i with i=nothing, 4, 12 or 52 depending on the frequency.

 + Prefix variable names with the minus symbol.
 + Set tex member.

Added a routine to convert variable names with underscores into somthing readable by a tex processor.

Identification and sensitivity fixes

[to be fixed later by breaking the big matrix stored ...]

1) better trace all cases when the model does not solve, classifying cases according to info output of dynare_resolve;
2) trap the case of memory allocation limit for too large model undergoing to reduced form mapping

2) fixed initialization of alpha2_stab;

2) fixed bug for the ML base (bayestopt_.pshape==0);
3) make more transparent the error when the model does not solve at prior_mode or  prior_mean;
4) when prior_mean or prior_mode fail, try 50 times with randomly generated samples from the prior before interrupting identification.

This commit fixes issues related to fabiac forum request and subsequent discussion with Johannes.

http://www.dynare.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4402&p=10771&hilit=identification&sid=64c6f9d987a2641e79dd5722137eb483#p10771