I need to know if there is a any function in matlab to choose random numbers from a given list. The list is given by the user. Suppose the list is (4,9,10,18,2) each time I want one value to be taken for calculation what function do I use?

Is there a function like that?

Answer 1

[madhan ravi]

yourlist(randi(numel(yourlist)))

[madhan ravi]

Just index using randi() pr randperm() :

yourlist(randperm(numel(yourlist),1))

[Kamali M]

Sir

out of a list if I want to take each element in an order then what function do I use?

[madhan ravi]

Can you illustrate with an example?