% step 1: define matrix m m = [116, 32, 97, 103; 67, 82, 65, 80; 82, 105, 103, 104; 97, 105, 110, 33]; % step 2: extract rows: n = [ m(3,:), m(1,:), m(4,:) ]; % pass vector n to function char() char(n) % Output: "Right again!"