[Haskell-cafe] Acquiring a random set of a specific size (w/o dups) from a range of Ints

[Felipe Almeida Lessa]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 8:56 PM, michael rice <nowgate at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Is there an (existing) way to select 5 Ints randomly (no duplicates) from a population, say 1-20 (inclusive)?

Yes, already implemented in the monte-carlo package as sampleSubset [1],

  sampleSubset :: MonadMC m => [a] -> Int -> m [a]

Complete example code for your example:

  evalMC (sampleSubset [1..20] 5) (mt19937 0)

Cheers!

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/monte-carlo/0.4.1/doc/html/Control-Monad-MC-Class.html#v:sampleSubset

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Felipe.