randomizing the string pulled from a plist file
I'm looking to randomize the output from a plist file. I've read about arc4random(), but I'm not sure how to incorporate it into the code.
thanks for any help.
here's the code that's currently pulling 'objectAtIndex:0'
-(IBAction) buttonPress {
NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBu开发者_StackOverflowndle] pathForResource:@"messages" ofType:@"plist"];
NSMutableArray *array = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:path];
[myMessage setText:[array objectAtIndex:0]];
NSLog(@"%@",array);
}
The obvious thing to do is just use random():
[array objectAtIndex:random()%array.count]
arc4random() adds unnecessary complexity for little obvious benefit.
If you want values to be more random, you can call srandomdev() once (e.g. in main() or application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: or whatever) before calling random().
If you want "secure" random numbers, use SecRandomCopyBytes().
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