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**2b. Picking multiple items, with equal probability, duplicates not allowed**

If you do not want to allow duplicates, there are several alternatives:

<pm:List::Util> (from version 1.54, 2020-02-02) provides `sample()`. If you use
an older version, you can use `shuffle()` then get as many number of samples as
you need from the first elements of the array using slice
(`@shuffled[0..$num_wanted-1]`) or `head()`.

<pm:List::MoreUtils> also provides `samples()`.

Keywords: sample, sampling.


**3. Picking item(s), with weights**

If you want to assign different weights to different items (so one item might be
picked more likely), you can use one of these modules:

<pm:Array::Sample::WeightedRandom> offers sampling without replacement (not
allowing duplicates) or with replacement (allowing duplicates).

<pm:Random::Skew>.

<pm:Data::Random::Weighted> currently can only pick a single item.


**Tangentially-related modules**

<pm:App::PickArgs> provides CLI <prog:pick-args> to pick random items from
command-line arguments.

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            module=>'List::Util',
        },
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            module=>'List::MoreUtils',
        },
        {
            module=>'Array::Sample::WeightedRandom',
        },
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            module=>'Random::Skew',
        },
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# ABSTRACT: List of modules to pick random items from a list

__END__

=pod

=encoding UTF-8

=head1 NAME

Acme::CPANModules::PickingRandomItemsFromList - List of modules to pick random items from a list

=head1 VERSION

This document describes version 0.006 of Acme::CPANModules::PickingRandomItemsFromList (from Perl distribution Acme-CPANModules-PickingRandomItemsFromList), released on 2025-05-22.

=head1 DESCRIPTION

If you are picking random lines from a file, there's a separate CPANModules list
for it: L<Acme::CPANModules::PickingRandomLinesFromFile>.

B<1. Picking a single item, with equal probability>

If you only want to pick a single item, with equal probability, you can simply
get a random element from an array using the C<$ary[rand @ary]> idiom.

B<2. Picking multiple items, with equal probability>

B<2a. Picking multiple items, with equal probability, duplicates allowed>

If you want to allow duplicates, you can repeatedly pick random elements from an
array using the C<$ary[rand @ary]> idiom.

B<2b. Picking multiple items, with equal probability, duplicates not allowed>

If you do not want to allow duplicates, there are several alternatives:

L<List::Util> (from version 1.54, 2020-02-02) provides C<sample()>. If you use
an older version, you can use C<shuffle()> then get as many number of samples as
you need from the first elements of the array using slice
(C<@shuffled[0..$num_wanted-1]>) or C<head()>.

L<List::MoreUtils> also provides C<samples()>.

Keywords: sample, sampling.

B<3. Picking item(s), with weights>

If you want to assign different weights to different items (so one item might be
picked more likely), you can use one of these modules:

L<Array::Sample::WeightedRandom> offers sampling without replacement (not
allowing duplicates) or with replacement (allowing duplicates).

L<Random::Skew>.

L<Data::Random::Weighted> currently can only pick a single item.

B<Tangentially-related modules>

L<App::PickArgs> provides CLI L<pick-args> to pick random items from
command-line arguments.

=head1 ACME::CPANMODULES ENTRIES

=over