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Sandip
Sandip

Reputation: 481

How to call List of methods randomly

I have few methods say

Now when I execute my form I want to call these methods randomly and print their output.

How can I do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 175

Answers (2)

Christos
Christos

Reputation: 53958

You could try some thing like this:

Random rnd = new Random();
// I suppose that you have 5 methods. If you have a greater number of methods
// just change the 6.
var number = rnd.Next(1,6);
switch(number)
{
    case 1:
       // call Method1
    case 2:
      // call Method2 
}

Upvotes: 2

Patrick Hofman
Patrick Hofman

Reputation: 156978

Create a list of methods, and pick one. Call that one:

List<Action> list = new List<Action>();
list.Add(this.Method1);

// Get random number
Random rnd = new Random();
int i = rnd.Next(0, list.Count);

// Call
list[i]();

Note that this only works if the signature is the same (in this case having no parameters). Else you could do the adding like this:

list.Add(() => this.Method1(1));
list.Add(() => this.Method2(1, 2));

If the method return a value, you should use Func<T> instead of Action, where T is the output type.

Upvotes: 6

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