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NutKac
NutKac

Reputation: 34

Pick 5 random letters from array

For school I need to make a script that prints 3 times something with 5 random letters. "ajshw kcmal idksj"

I have made this:

var myArray = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 
'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 
'z'];

var random = myArray[Math.floor(Math.random() * myArray.length)];
document.write('<br>' +  random);

But this only prints one letter. How can it print 5 letters 3 times?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 498

Answers (3)

Jade Ellis
Jade Ellis

Reputation: 1542

A simple way would be to simply generate that single letter multiple times with a loop. A way to do this would go as follows:

var myArray = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 
'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 
'z'];

var phrase = "";
for (var x = 0; x < 3; x++) {
    for (var y = 0; y < 5; y++) {
        phrase = phrase + myArray[Math.floor(Math.random() * myArray.length)];
    }
    phrase = phrase + " ";
}
console.log(phrase)

Upvotes: 0

RoadRunner
RoadRunner

Reputation: 26315

What about just making a nested loop:

const myArray = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k',
  'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y',
  'z'
];

const length = myArray.length;

const numStrings = 3;
const numLetters = 5;

for (let i = 0; i < numStrings; i++) {
  let string = "";

  for (let j = 0; j < numLetters; j++) {
    let letter = myArray[Math.floor(Math.random() * length)];
    string += letter;
  }
  console.log(string);
}

Upvotes: 0

Hassan Imam
Hassan Imam

Reputation: 22524

Iterate 5 times to generate each word with 5 letters and iterate 3 times to generate three words. You can use for loop to generate the words or you can use array#map to generate the words and using array#join you can join them. 

var myArray = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z'],
    random = [...Array(3)]
      .map(_ => [...Array(5)].map(_ => myArray[Math.floor(Math.random() * myArray.length)]).join(''))
      .join('<br>');
document.write(random);

Upvotes: 1

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