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polly YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 12	array.choose May 9th, 2008, 10:39pm   I'm wondering if there's an array.choose method which chooses from among the values of an array? I keep doing something like int[] thisArray =  {0,1,1,1,1}; choice=thisArray[in(random(thisArray.length))]; which isn't too bad but it's getting annoying, so I just thought I'd ask. thanks in advance....

JohnG Ex Member	Re: array.choose Reply #1 - May 10th, 2008, 10:20pm   You could write the function yourself: Code: int chose(int[] vals) { return vals[(int)random(vals.length)]; } You may have to make a float[] version too...

polly YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 12	Re: array.choose Reply #2 - May 11th, 2008, 9:27pm   you're right, I should figure out the syntax for writing classes in processing, thanks for the nudge...