I am trying to generate a 5 digit int
array in Java and am having trouble on where to start. None of the numbers in the array can be duplicates. I can generate
try this:
int[] digits = { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 };
Random random = new Random();
int[] generateId() {
int[] clone = digits.clone();
int[] id = new int[5];
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
int candidate;
do {
candidate = random.nextInt(10);
} while (clone[candidate] == -1);
id[i] = clone[candidate];
clone[candidate] = -1;
}
return id;
}
First off i want to thank all of you for helping out i really appreciate it.
I got this program to work the way i want but it seems like there should be an easier way though. Here is what i did. Any more comments would be awesome.
do
{
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
{
iNumber = generator.nextInt(9) + 1;
numbers[i] = iNumber;
}
}
while(numbers[0] == numbers[1] || numbers[0] == numbers[2] || numbers[0] == numbers[3] || numbers[0] == numbers[4] || numbers[1] == numbers[2] || numbers[1] == numbers[3] || numbers[1] == numbers[4] || numbers[2] == numbers[3] || numbers[2] == numbers[4] || numbers[3] == numbers[4]);