Question

lets say I have a multi-line textbox with 100 lines, how would you go about selecting one of those lines randomly in c# and putting that value in a string.

Answer 1

Random r = new Random();
int index = r.Next(0, textBox1.Lines.Length);
string line = textBox1.Lines[index];

Of course r should be a class or instance variable and not re-newed every time you need this, otherwise it won’t be so random.

Edit per comment:

This uses the Random.Next() overload that allows you to specify a range from which you want to pick a (pseudo-) random number. The 0 is the inclusive lower bound of the range, textBox1.Lines.Length is the exclusive upper bound of the range (which means that that number itself won’t be part of the range) – so you will get numbers from 0 to textBox1.Lines.Length -1.