Random Assortment

Modderman -

There are many ways to virtually "shuffle". Here is one simple example in C#:

static void Shuffle(string[] items, int numTimesToShuffle)

{

// Create a random number generator

Random random = new Random();

// Loop over the array swapping random elements

for (int i = 0; i < numTimesToShuffle; i++)

{

// Pick two indexes in the array to swap

int r1 = random.Next(items.Length);

int r2 = random.Next(items.Length);

// Swap the two elements

string temp = items[r1];

items[r1] = items[r2];

items[r2] = temp;

}

}

Thanks,
Luke Hoban
Visual C# IDE Program Manager

String access using [int index] is read-only, you probably want to copy your string to a char array, then return a new string, passing the scrambled char[] in the constructor.