How can I generate a random string in Matlab?

Question

I want to create a string with random length and random characters, only [a-z][A-Z] and numbers. Is there something built in?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

This should work

s = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789';

%find number of random characters to choose from
numRands = length(s); 

%specify length of random string to generate
sLength = 50;

%generate random string
randString = s( ceil(rand(1,sLength)*numRands) )