How do I shuffle an array in Swift?

Question

How do I randomize or shuffle the elements within an array in Swift? For example, if my array consists of 52 playing cards, I want to shuffle the array in o

Answer 1

As of swift 4.2 there are two handy functions:

// shuffles the array in place
myArray.shuffle()

and

// generates a new array with shuffled elements of the old array
let newArray = myArray.shuffled()