I am creating a method called getRandomLetter()
that I want to randomly return a single letter from the English alphabet. I want the method to be more likely to return a letter with a higher number associated with it.
I have two arrays. One has chars for each letter in the alphabet. The second has doubles, each representing the chances, out of 100%, that the letter with the same index, in the other array, will be the letter returned by my method.
I am trying to get the method to use the double array to have higher and lower chances to return specific characters.
Unfortunately, my method only returns z and y.
How can I make getRandomLetter()
return specific letters/chars according to the numbers I specify for each?
My Code Example:
public class MCVE {
// each letter's frequency is represented in the next array by
// the double value at the same index as the letter
final private static char[] CharArr = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvqxyz".toCharArray();
// Holds each letter's percentage-chance to be chosen
// For Example: 0.1 is equal to 10%
// All-together, they add up to 1.0
final private static double[] DoubleArr = new double[] {
0.087248322147651, 0.035722017752760335, 0.08010391859709894,
0.05520675470881143, 0.046763368694522627, 0.018618748646893266,
0.028144620047629357, 0.021866204806235117, 0.016020783719419788,
0.07101104135094176, 0.06040268456375839, 0.08703182507036156,
0.10002164970772895, 0.027711625893050443, 0.009742368478025547,
0.021433210651656202, 0.0012989824637367395, 0.0458973803853648,
0.07988742151980949, 0.05260878978133795, 0.0015154795410261962,
0.022515696038103484, 0.009309374323446633, 0.0012989824637367395,
0.011690842173630657, 0.006927906473262611};
private static char getRandomLetter() {
double randomDouble = ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextDouble(0.0, 1.0);
char retVal = ' ';
// subtract each value in DoubleArr from randomDouble until,
// randomDouble would be < 0, then return the char that is
// associated with that double
for(int i = 0; i < CharArr.length; i++) {
double subtract = DoubleArr[i];
if (randomDouble - subtract <= 0.0)
retVal = CharArr[i];
else
randomDouble -= subtract;
}
return retVal;
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
// get a large sample of chars to test thoroughness
char[] sampleChars = new char[1000];
for(int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
sampleChars[i] = getRandomLetter();
}
// print 10 characters per line
int ct = 0;
for(char c: sampleChars) {
System.out.print(c + " ");
ct++;
if(ct == 10) {
ct = 0;
System.out.println();
}
}
}
}
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