How to shuffle the elements of a collection ?
Following example how to shuffle the elements of a collection with the help of Collections.shuffle() method of Collections class.
import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Collections; import java.util.List; public class Main { public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception { String[] alpha = { "A", "E", "I", "O", "U" }; List list = new ArrayList(alpha); Collections.shuffle(list); System.out.println("list"); } }
The above code sample will produce the following result.
I O A U E
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