Hello everyone,
I’m currently failing to select two random items from an array.
I select a random item like this:
{{get(2.customArray; floor(random * length(2.customArray)) + 1)}}
What is the right approach now?Delete the selected item from the array and pick a new one? How would i do that?
thanks for your help!
Hi Sebastian,
you can use shuffle() on the array and then on the next step use first() and last() to get two different random items.
Or, in the first step you can create two different random numbers and then use get() with them for two different items from the array.
Welcome to the Make community!
You can use the built-in function slice to return a new array with a fixed number of elements from the original array.
e.g.:
{{ slice(shuffle(2.customArray); 0; 2) }}
For more information, see the slice function documentation in the Help Center.
Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.
— @samliew
Very good solutions and much easier than I thought. With the second one I also have a solution for more than two random picks 
.
I’m immediately motivated to do more :)) Thank you very much!
No problem, glad I could help!
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