Swift, how to get a random item from an array
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This tutorial belongs to the Swift series
Suppose you have an array in Swift, like this:
let items = [1, 2, 3]
and you want to get a random number out of it.
The Array data type provides the randomElement()
function that returns an Element?
:
let item = items.randomElement()
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