Write a class to encapsulate the individual elements, 'Name' and
'Email', then instantiate objects of this class and put them in the
array. That way they'll stay together.
However, Array.Shuffle works only on arrays of primitive data types
(I believe...), not objects, so you'll need to write another class to
contain the array, and let it do the shuffling (basically, a
bubble-sort, but - instead of comparing elements to determine if they
should be swapped - you just 'flip a coin' (i.e. use RBs RNG); this is
usually how I handle shuffling cards code-wise.) via a 'Shuffle'
method.
On Jul 8, 2006, at 12:01 PM, Stephen Dodd wrote:
Does anyone know a reasonable method to shuffle paired data?
For instance if I have 2 arrays:
dim Name(100) as string
dim Email(100) as string
I can't use name.shuffle and email.shuffle because they will no longer
match.
If I use:
dim NameAndEmail(100, 1) as String
...
// populate
// NameAndEmail(x, 0) = Name
// NameAndEmail(x, 1) = Email
...
then
NameAndEmail.Shuffle
It appears to mix the dimensions together. That is email will appear
in the name dimension randomly.
Or is this write a shuffle routine from scratch case?
Cheers!
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