// C Program to shuffle a given array
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
// A utility function to swap to integers
void swap (int *a, int
*b)
{
int temp = *a;
*a = *b;
*b = temp;
}
// A utility function to print an array
void printArray (int arr[], int
n)
{
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
printf("%d
", arr[i]);
printf("\n");
}
// A function to generate a random
permutation of arr[]
void randomize ( int arr[], int
n )
{
// Use a different
seed value so that we don't get same
// result each time
we run this program
srand ( time(NULL) );
// Start from the
last element and swap one by one. We don't
// need to run for
the first element that's why i > 0
for (int i = n-1; i > 0; i--)
{
//
Pick a random index from 0 to i
int j = rand() % (i+1);
//
Swap arr[i] with the element at random index
swap(&arr[i],
&arr[j]);
}
}
// Driver program to test above function.
int main()
{
int arr[] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8};
int n = sizeof(arr)/ sizeof(arr[0]);
randomize (arr, n);
printArray(arr, n);
return 0;
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