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30-seconds-of-code/snippets/sampleSize.md
Mathias Bynens 8ee50178f3 Avoid confusing prototype methods for static methods
Correct: `Array.from()` (it’s a static method)
Incorrect: `Array.join()` (doesn’t exist; it’s a prototype method)

This patch uses the common `#` syntax to denote `.prototype.`.
2018-09-28 15:44:12 -04:00

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### sampleSize
Gets `n` random elements at unique keys from `array` up to the size of `array`.
Shuffle the array using the [Fisher-Yates algorithm](https://github.com/30-seconds/30-seconds-of-code#shuffle).
Use `Array.prototype.slice()` to get the first `n` elements.
Omit the second argument, `n` to get only one element at random from the array.
```js
const sampleSize = ([...arr], n = 1) => {
let m = arr.length;
while (m) {
const i = Math.floor(Math.random() * m--);
[arr[m], arr[i]] = [arr[i], arr[m]];
}
return arr.slice(0, n);
};
```
```js
sampleSize([1, 2, 3], 2); // [3,1]
sampleSize([1, 2, 3], 4); // [2,3,1]
```