How to write a program, and shuffles only the inner letter of the word?

How to write a program, and shuffles only the inner letter of the word, but leave the first and last letter of the word alone? Thank you

[Rena Berman]

(Answers Dev) Restored edit.

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

Try this:

word = 'abcdefgh'
middleIndexes = randperm(length(word)-2) + 1
newWord = [word(1), word(middleIndexes), word(end)]

[ana zong]

thank you!

Answer 2

[Stephen23]

>> str = 'This is really quite easy with regular expressions.';
>> regexprep(str,'(\w)(\w+)(\w)','$1${$2(randperm(numel($2)))}$3')
ans =
Tihs is rlleay qiute esay with rlgaeur esiorsxpens.

[ana zong]

thank you!

Answer 3

[Jan]

See FEX: MessWords

Acoicdnrg to a stduy of an Enlsigh unitsvreiy the odrer of carartehcs in a wrod deos not prevnet the riatdibaley, as lnog as the fsirt and lsat chetcraar are ccroert. The rset can be ctpemoelly mxeid and nsnneose, but it is sitll rdaleabe. Tihs wrkos, beasuce the wrdos are not raed certcaahr by ccrataher, but iifdnetied in toatl.

[ana zong]

thank you!

[Rena Berman]

Jan that is cool!