randomly select elements of an array

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Amolisingh · Jul 28, 2020 · 1.9K views
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Hi How i can select randomly elements from a matrix o array I have the matrix and i want to select "x" numbers of elements
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Answered Aug 24, 2026
msize = numel(YourMatrix);
idx = randperm(msize);
YourMatrix(idx(1:x))

If you have a fairly new version of MATLAB, you can instead use

msize = numel(YourMatrix);
YourMatrix(randperm(msize, x))
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