I need to randomly shuffle the following Array:
int[] solutionArray = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1};
Is there any function to do that?
Using Collections to shuffle an array of primitive types is a bit of an overkill...
It is simple enough to implement the function yourself, using for example the Fisher–Yates shuffle:
import java.util.*;
class Test
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
int[] solutionArray = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11 };
shuffleArray(solutionArray);
for (int i = 0; i < solutionArray.length; i++)
{
System.out.print(solutionArray[i] + " ");
}
System.out.println();
}
// Implementing Fisher–Yates shuffle
static void shuffleArray(int[] ar)
{
Random rnd = new Random();
for (int i = ar.length - 1; i > 0; i--)
{
int index = rnd.nextInt(i + 1);
// Simple swap
int a = ar[index];
ar[index] = ar[i];
ar[i] = a;
}
}
}