The following code example is taken from the book
C++17 - The Complete Guide
by Nicolai M. Josuttis,
Leanpub, 2017
The code is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
// raw code
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <string>
#include <iterator>
#include <algorithm> // for sample()
#include <random> // for default_random_engine
int main()
{
// initialize a vector of 10,000 string values:
std::vector<std::string> coll;
for (int i=0; i < 10000; ++i) {
coll.push_back("value" + std::to_string(i));
}
// print 10 randomly selected values of this collection:
std::sample(coll.begin(), coll.end(),
std::ostream_iterator<std::string>{std::cout, "\n"},
10,
std::default_random_engine{});
}