how to generate random number from array

Question

How to generate random number from an array? and not from a range.

int n [] = {1,7,3,5,8,10,33,12,18}

Solution

import java.util.Random;

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Random random = new Random();
System.out.println(n[random.nextInt(n.length)]);

Comments

[mmmmmm]

possible duplicate of How to generate a random number with Java from given list of numbers

[Anderson Green]

It isn't clear what this question is asking. Do you want to randomly pick a number from this array, and then return that number?

[Jessy]

Thank you :-) ...you are brilliant!

[Rich]

Note that you should cache the Random instance in a field instead of creating a new instance each time you need a random number.