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I need to rearrange my List array, it has a non-determinable number of elements in it.
Can somebody give me example of how i do this, thanks
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I need to rearrange my List array, it has a non-determinable number of elements in it.
Can somebody give me example of how i do this, thanks
List<Foo> source = ...
var rnd = new Random();
var result = source.OrderBy(item => rnd.Next());
Obviously if you want real randomness instead of pseudo-random number generator you could use RNGCryptoServiceProvider instead of Random.
This is an extension method that will shuffle a List<T>
:
public static void Shuffle<T>(this IList<T> list) {
int n = list.Count;
Random rnd = new Random();
while (n > 1) {
int k = (rnd.Next(0, n) % n);
n--;
T value = list[k];
list[k] = list[n];
list[n] = value;
}
}