Selecting random array

Questions & Answers
1

I am trying to create a system where upon starting the game map will be selected and then generated from lets say map pool. All my maps are jaggedArrays. I tried to put jaggedArrays into ArrayList and generate from that but that did not work then I tried putting all my maps into 1 jaggedArray which look like this.

 maps[0] = new string[] { null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "W", "W", "W", "W", "W", "W", "W", "W", "W", "W", "W", "W", "W", "W", "eol"}

 maps[1] = new string[] { null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, "W", "W", "W", "W", "W", "W", "W", "W", "W", "W", "W", "W", "W", "W", "eol"}

“eol” - represents end of line
after “eol” map information continues on another row.

(map is 24 by x and rows are limited by “eol” - x is undefined number)

Converting part of jaggedArray into separate array

   // vyberMapy transates to chooseMap
 
 public static void vyberMapy()
    {
        int number = Random.Range(1, 3);

        int i = 0;
        for (int j = 0; j < maps[number].Length; j++)
        {
            map1*[j] = maps[number][j].ToString();*

if (maps[number][j].ToString() == “eol”)
{
i++;
}
}
}
Conclusion
I need to figure way to randomly select one of there maps, via randomly generated number atm. of range between 1-2 and using return function to return chosen map.

2

I don’t really understand what you’re trying to achieve, but have you tried

return map[Random.Range(0, map.Length)];

This will return a random “line” of your map array. Note that the max value is exclusive so you don’t need to subtract 1 from it to prevent ArrayIndexOutOfRangeExceptions.

So let’s say you have the following construct:

ArrayList<string[]> maps = new ArrayList<string[]>();

maps.Add(new string[]{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8});
maps.Add(new string[]{8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1});
maps.Add(new string[]{5,6,7,8,1,2,3,4});

you could do the followoing:

ArrayList<string[]>() generatedMap = new ArrayList<string[]>();

for(int i = 0; i < <yourNumberOfLines>; i++) {
    generatedMap.Add(maps[Random.Range(0,maps.Count)]);
}