how to randomly generate an alphabet within a given range ?

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i want to randomly generate an alphabet between a given range,for example a range of A-J,and i want matlab to pick a alphabet between this range...how do i do it? i am a beginner at matlab and would really appreciate ur help!ThankYou!

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Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 2 Dec 2013
Edited: Azzi Abdelmalek on 2 Dec 2013
s='A':'J'
str=s(randi(numel(s)))

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Wayne King
Wayne King on 2 Dec 2013
Edited: Wayne King on 2 Dec 2013
Do you want capital or lower case letters? You can just use the ascii representations
char(97:106)
or
char(65:74)
If you have the Statistics Toolbox you can randomly sample from those "populations"
idx = randsample(65:74,5); %choose five letters at random
char(idx)

Arjun P Kumar
Arjun P Kumar on 25 Sep 2020
AB
AC
AD
AE
AF
let these be the options to randomly generate...how can i do that?
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Sterling Baird
Sterling Baird on 21 Oct 2020
Edited: Sterling Baird on 21 Oct 2020
I suggest asking as a new question and linking to this post, but I wouldn't be surprised if this question has been asked already somewhere.

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Ramesh Singh
Ramesh Singh on 27 Jun 2021
Edited: Ramesh Singh on 30 Jun 2021
it is the function that can generate random alphabet between the given alphabet.. one more thing you can also input the ascii code of alphabet
function ra=randa(a,b)
%a=any number or alphabet
%b=any number or alphabet
l=double(a);
k=double(b);
if a>=65&b<=90
ra=char(randi([l k],1,1));
elseif a>=95&b<=122
ra=char(randi([l k],1,1));
else
error('you are entering wrong number or alphabet');
end
end
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 27 Jun 2021
Your ranges are off
char(60:90) %what you use
ans = '<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
('A':'Z')+0 %actual
ans = 1×26
65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90
Your use of > and < is confusing. Use >= and <=

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