Randomly selecting an element from an array

Question

How do I randomly select a number from an array? Please guide as I am new to this.

Answer 1

For randomly selecting an element, java.util.Random provides a random generator which you can use as below:

public static int getRandom(int[] array) {
    int rdm_num = new Random().nextInt(array.length);
    return array[rdm_num];
}