showing results in a for loop randomly

[vexity]

Hello there, I would like to display results from a from loop randomly and I have no idea how to do it. This is the for loop that i have:

for (int i = 0; i < object.length(); i++)
		{
			System.out.println(displaytext(i));
		}

I basically want to display some text I have stored in variables else where, but i don't want to display them serially, i want to show them randomly. I also don't want any of the text to be displayed more then once.
All help is appreciated, thanks!

[Eranga]

Where your texts are stored. In an array, if so find the index randomly and get the text.

[danielstoner]

Because of your "display once" requirement you need to implement a more complicated solution. You have to implement a shuffle algorithm. For this you can randomly shuffle an array of indexes to your objects and then display the text at each shuffled index. To shuffle the array of indexes you can go once through the array with a for loop and for each index swap the value with another randomly picked location in the array. Sorry I don't have time to write the code right now. Maybe later if you still need it.

[vexity]

I'd appreciate it much if you can still show me the code.
-thanks

[Eranga]

Ok, try this code.

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Random;


/**
 *
 * @author Eranga Tennakoon
 */
public class vexity {
    
    private String[] numbers = {"One", "Two", "Three",
                              "Four", "Five", "Six", "Seven"};
    private Random random = new Random();
    
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new vexity().doSelection();
    }
    
    private void doSelection() {
        int[] index = new int[numbers.length];
        Arrays.fill(index, -1);
        
        for (int i = 0; i < index.length; i++) {
            int num = getNumber(index);
            index[i] = num;
            System.out.println("random value: " + num);
            System.out.println("word : " + numbers[num]);
        }
    }

    private int getNumber(int[] array) {
        int n;
        do {
            n = random.nextInt(numbers.length);
        } while(isContain(array, n));
        return n;        
    }
    
    private boolean isContain(int[] array, int n) {
        for(int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
            if(array[i] == n)
                return true;
        }
        return false;        
    }
}

What you have tried up to now pal. :)