How to select a random string from an array of strings?
This article demonstrates how to pick a random string from an array of strings.
We can use the random number generator to pick a random item from an array. The following code snippet has an array of author names (strings). We can pick a random author by generating a random number that is less than the number of items in the array and use the random index to pick a random author name in the string.
The Random.Next method generates a random integer and by passing the maximum length of the array means the random number cannot be greater than the number of items in the array.
using System;
public class RandomStringInArraySample
{
public static void Main()
{
// A array of authors
string[] authors = { "Mahesh Chand", "Jeff Prosise", "Dave McCarter", "Allen O'neill",
"Monica Rathbun", "Henry He", "Raj Kumar", "Mark Prime",
"Rose Tracey", "Mike Crown" };
// Create a Random object
Random rand = new Random();
// Generate a random index less than the size of the array.
int index = rand.Next(authors.Length);
// Display the result.
Console.WriteLine($"Randomly selected author is {authors[index]}");
Console.ReadKey();
}
}
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Summary
In this article and code snippet, we discussed how to select a random string from an array of strings.