What's the Best Way to Shuffle an NSMutableArray?

Question

If you have an NSMutableArray, how do you shuffle the elements randomly?

(I have my own answer for this, which is posted below, but I\'m new to Cocoa an

Answer 1

Kristopher Johnson's answer is pretty nice, but it's not totally random.

Given an array of 2 elements, this function returns always the inversed array, because you are generating the range of your random over the rest of the indexes. A more accurate shuffle() function would be like

- (void)shuffle
{
   NSUInteger count = [self count];
   for (NSUInteger i = 0; i < count; ++i) {
       NSInteger exchangeIndex = arc4random_uniform(count);
       if (i != exchangeIndex) {
            [self exchangeObjectAtIndex:i withObjectAtIndex:exchangeIndex];
       }
   }
}