Randperm generating the same sequence of permutation

I am using randperm to generate different random permutations (subset of the data) from a data set. However even after 2 iterations it is generating the same combination of the number. For eg: the desired output would be like p={1,3,5,6,9,10},{4,6,7,2,1,3}... however i am getting p={1,4,5,7,8},{1,4,5,7,8}. its the same sequence i am getting.
saikath

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for k=1:3
out{k}=randperm(10,5)
end
celldisp(out)

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i used the for loop to generate different subsets and selected randomly from them. Thanks a lot

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Are you resetting the random number generator in between iterations?

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yes, i need a random sequence, then perform testing, in the next iteration generate a new random sequence and perform new testing.This step is repeated over the iteration.
randperm uses the random number generator, so in effect you are also resetting randperm. To get different sampling in each iteration, don't reset the random number generator.
You can use two different RandStream, one for the random sequence generation, one for randperm.
Thanks a lot. i figured it a different approach, i generated 100 random subjects. and selecting random subject at a time and kept it in an iteration.
Thanks a lot

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