Percentage chance of saying something?

Question

How do I make it so ..

• 80% of the time it will say sendMessage(\"hi\");
• 5 % of the time it will say sendMessage(\"bye\");
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Answer 1

I made a percentage chance function by creating a pool and using the fisher yates shuffle algorithm for a completely random chance. The snippet below tests the chance randomness 20 times.

var arrayShuffle = function(array) {
   for ( var i = 0, length = array.length, swap = 0, temp = ''; i < length; i++ ) {
      swap        = Math.floor(Math.random() * (i + 1));
      temp        = array[swap];
      array[swap] = array[i];
      array[i]    = temp;
   }
   return array;
};

var percentageChance = function(values, chances) {
   for ( var i = 0, pool = []; i < chances.length; i++ ) {
      for ( var i2 = 0; i2 < chances[i]; i2++ ) {
         pool.push(i);
      }
   }
   return values[arrayShuffle(pool)['0']];
};

for ( var i = 0; i < 20; i++ ) {
   console.log(percentageChance(['hi', 'test', 'bye'], [80, 15, 5]));
}