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Swift, how to get a random item from an array

Published Jun 15 2021

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()