random choice from list of strings in emacs lisp
To randomly choose a string from a list in Emacs Lisp, you can use the (nth (random (length list)) list)
function. Here's an example:
(setq my-list '("string1" "string2" "string3"))
(setq random-string (nth (random (length my-list)) my-list))
In this example, my-list
is the list of strings, and random-string
will store a randomly chosen string from my-list
.
Please note that the (random n)
function returns a random integer between 0 (inclusive) and n
(exclusive). So, (random (length my-list))
generates a random index within the range of the list.
I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any further questions.