[Haskell-cafe] How to select n random words from a file ...

[Noon Silk]

Hi,

 I'm clearly new to haskell, and I suppose those is a basic question,
but after a bit of searching I've been unable to figure out the "best"
way to do this. I was first trying to find out how to, say, get a
random element from a list, but I'm starting to think that may not be
the best way (because list access isn't constant time, among other
reasons). So, I wonder if there is a more direct way to just get a
random word from a wordfile (i.e. one word per line) ... can anyone
suggest a method?

 Ideally I'd like to be able to adapt this to get n random words from
several files (i.e. randomly select n words from all files; i.e. just
read them into one merged array and choose from there?)

 Thanks for any advice ...

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