Question about random generator?

I need to create a program that will output random groupings taken from names on an excel file(how can i enter the excel file in matlab?). I dont know how to start this. is there any algorithms i could study to make this?

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

uigetfile(), xlsread(), randperm()

[Portgas Ace]

how come the output names appearing on matlab has ' ' in them? example 'James'.

[Walter Roberson]

Please read about cell arrays