From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2006-06-23T04:52:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Randomly select an element from an array

On Jun 22, 2006, at 21:46, David Solis wrote:

> I have an array:
>
> [1,2,3,4,5]
>
> How do I randomly select an element from the array?

irb(main):001:0> a = %w(foo bar baz)
=> ["foo", "bar", "baz"]
irb(main):002:0> a[rand(a.length)]
=> "bar"

-- fxn