How to shuffle characters in a string without using Collections.shuffle(…)?

Question

How do I shuffle the characters in a string (e.g. hello could be ehlol or lleoh or ...). I don\'t want to use the Collections.shuffle(...) method, is there anyt

Answer 1

How about this:

public static String shuffle(String text) {
    char[] characters = text.toCharArray();
    for (int i = 0; i < characters.length; i++) {
        int randomIndex = (int)(Math.random() * characters.length);
        char temp = characters[i];
        characters[i] = characters[randomIndex];
        characters[randomIndex] = temp;
    }
    return new String(characters);
}