How to choose a random element from an array in Scala?

Question

For example, there is a Scala array val A = Array(\"please\", \"help\", \"me\"). How to choose a random element from this array?

Answer 1

A better answer that does not involve reshuffling the array at all would be this:

import scala.util.Random

object sample {
  //gets random element from array
  def arr[T](items:Array[T]):T = {
    items(Random.nextInt(items.length))
  }
}

This also works generically