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Random item selector
World's simplest list tool
This is a super simple browser-based application that randomly selects items from a list. By default, it selects one random item but you can also pick two, three, or more random items. The picked items don't repeat but in the options, you can enable or disable the repetitions of items. You can use any separators for the input list items and you can also remove empty items from being selected. Additionally, the output list of picked items can use any joining characters. Created by list geeks from team Browserling.
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What is a random item selector?
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With this online utility, you can randomly select one or more items from a list. The items of a list can be anything that you can type in the text format and they can be entered in any format. To separate each list item, you can use the input list delimiter option. Here, you can specify a character separator (for example, if the list is comma-separated, then it's a comma, or if it's semicolon-separated, then it's a semicolon) or a regular expression separator (for example, if there is both a comma and semicolon between the list items). When the items are separated, the program automatically extracts random items from the list and displays them in the output field. You can specify the number of items you want to pick in the options. You can also control whether you want the same item to be selected multiple times via the "Allow Repeated Items" option. Sometimes, lists have a bunch of empty elements in them (often as a result of copy/pasting from PDF documents), and to make sure no empty items are selected, there's an additional "Skip Empty Items" option. If more than one random item is selected in the output, you can re-format this list and set a new separator character that goes between the items. Listabulous!
Random item selector examples
Click to usePick a Random Email
In this example, eight participants in a reader competition left their emails. We wanted to select one contest winner, so we split the vertical list of emails by the newline character and set the number of output items equal to 1. This way, we selected one winner, and it turns out it was our most loyal reader Zalgo.
supermario34@me.com
sabrina_098@yahoo.com
zalgocomes@gmail.com
dragonViserion@mail.de
sumgreen@msn.com
yanggeek@live.com
barneybear@att.net
superspider@mac.com
zalgocomes@gmail.com
Required options
The input item delimiters
are matched by a character
or a string (specify below).
Delimiting character (or string)
or a regular expression.
Select this many random items.
Allow the same item to be
selected more than once.
If the items have no symbols
(have just whitespaces), then
do not select them.
Set the picked item joiner
symbol.
Select 3 Schools from a List
In this example, we needed to select three schools to participate in a grant. To make sure our selection wasn't biased and no school had an advantage over any other school, we used our random selection algorithm. Our algorithm gives each item in a list an equal chance of winning. As the school names are separated by a semicolon followed by a newline, we split them by the regular expression "/;\n?/g". We extract the three winners and display them in a column.
Asheville School;
The Putney School;
Episcopal High School;
St. Andrew’s School;
Phillips Academy;
Church Farm School;
St. Paul’s School;
The Thacher School
Episcopal High School
Phillips Academy
St. Paul’s School
Required options
The input item delimiters
are matched by a regular
expression (specify below).
Delimiting character (or string)
or a regular expression.
Select this many random items.
Allow the same item to be
selected more than once.
If the items have no symbols
(have just whitespaces), then
do not select them.
Set the picked item joiner
symbol.
Pick Four Random Phone Numbers
In this example, we're working with a list of phone numbers and we pick four random numbers from it. The numbers are separated by a comma plus a space but the list is dirty and there are many extra commas in it. To make sure we don't select empty phone numbers, we use the "Skip Empty Items" option. As we don't require unique list items in the output, we also activate the "Allow Repeated Items" option so that the same phone number can be picked several times.
(920)871-8689, (795)554-144, , , (370)621-2104, (301)930-0233, (333)260-6063, (317)223-1375, (943)782-1138, , , (659)605-7424
(943)782-1138; (943)782-1138; (317)223-1375; (795)554-144
Required options
The input item delimiters
are matched by a character
or a string (specify below).
Delimiting character (or string)
or a regular expression.
Select this many random items.
Allow the same item to be
selected more than once.
If the items have no symbols
(have just whitespaces), then
do not select them.
Set the picked item joiner
symbol.
Pro tips
Master online list tools
You can pass input to this tool via ?input query argument and it will automatically compute output. Here's how to type it in your browser's address bar. Click to try!
https://onlinelisttools.com/randomly-select-item?input=supermario34%40me.com%0Asabrina_098%40yahoo.com%0Azalgocomes%40gmail.com%0AdragonViserion%40mail.de%0Asumgreen%40msn.com%0Ayanggeek%40live.com%0Abarneybear%40att.net%0Asuperspider%40mac.com&string-separator=true&input-separator=%5Cn&count=1&join-character=%5Cn&with-repetitions=false&skip-empty-items=false
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