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How do I randomly pick any ArrayList index?

807603Feb 10 2008 — edited Feb 10 2008
Hi,

My problem is that, I have an ArrayList with a number of entries in.. Each iteration that this ArrayList is read the ArrayList index should decrease by 1.

What I am trying to do though is randomly select an index within the ArrayList to get a value from.

Would I use Java's random function to generate a random number according to the size of the ArrayList.

Thus given me a random index..?

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