Select random item using weight

Question

hello I want to select random items from a list with weight like this item - weight apple -34 orange-37 strawberry-11 mango-8 banana -3.98 cherry-5.7 grape- 0.3 guava- 0.02 please help me with this if i use random generate method this grape and guava which has less than 1 is got as 1 used frequently which i should not want. thanks

Nitesh Luharuka · Answer

Store the items in a list and then print a value present at an index of the list where the index is generated randomly.

Vulpes · Answer

Try this: using System; class Program { static Random r = new Random(); static void Main() { // get 10 random fruits for(int i = 0; i Console.WriteLine(GetRandomFruit()); Console.ReadKey(); } static string GetRandomFruit() { double d = r.NextDouble(); // 0 if(d return apple; else if (d return orange; else if (d return strawberry; else if (d return mango; else if (d return banana; else if (d return cherry; else if (d return grape; else return guava; } }