Remove duplicates from array for landmark sequence generation

Hi,
Say I had an array:
x
I have 6 landmarks and I want to generate different path ways so I travel each landmarks once;
For example;
I want x to look like;
x = [1 2 3 4 5 6] or x = [1 3 2 5 4 6] or x = [1 5 4 2 3 6] without any repetition of landmarks.
However 1 is the starting landmark and 6 is the end landmark. I want these to stay as it is. The landmarks between are generated using randperm(6). How do generate an array like this?
Thanks

Answers (1)

perms(x(2:end-1))
gives you all paths. Add ones and sixes with
[repmat(1,factorial(4),1) perms(x(2:end-1)) repmat(6,factorial(4),1)]

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Thanks for the reply. This still gives me repeated landmark values. So I only want to visit each landmark once from start to end and can't visit one place twice. Is there another way around this?
What do you mean by "repeated landmark values"? All rows in the output contains 1-6 and are never repeated.

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