How to calculate variables from one method inside another method: Help!!! (Complicated)

Question

Hi everyone,
This complicated plan I have is driving me nuts so I'd really appreciate if one of you superior coders could help me with this. I want the following:

The main method and it's class include an array:
AnimalList[] = { "frog", "dog", "rabbit", "donkey", "cow", "chicken" };
HumanList[] = { "man", "woman", "child", "grandpa", "grandma", "baby" };

...3 Animals:
String Animal1; String Animal2; String Animal3;

...and 3 Humans:
String Human1; String Human2;

I want to create one method, that randomly picks 3 of the array entries, compares them with the other picks to avoid duplication and than sends them back to main.

Something like:
for
(Animal1 = AnimalList[(byte)(Math.random()*AnimalList.length),
Animal2 = AnimalList[(byte)(Math.random()*AnimalList.length),
Animal3 = AnimalList[(byte)(Math.random()*AnimalList.length)];
Animal1 == Animal2 || Animal1 == Animal3 || Animal 2 == Animal 3 ;
Animal2 = AnimalList[(byte)(Math.random()*AnimalList.length),
Animal3 = AnimalList[(byte)(Math.random()*AnimalList.length)] );

I want this to work for any other list aswell so that I can basically sent humans and the humanslist (automatically including it in .length aswell) in there so I save a lot of space in my code and it looks better sorted.

In case one of you shows me how to do this... THANK YOU!!!

Answer 1

String AnimalList[] = { "frog", "dog", "rabbit", "donkey", "cow", "chicken" };
String HumanList[] = { "man", "woman", "child", "grandpa", "grandma", "baby" };

String animal1 = AnimalList[(byte)(Math.random() * AnimalList.length)];
String animal2 = AnimalList[(byte)(Math.random() * AnimalList.length)];
String animal3 = AnimalList[(byte)(Math.random() * AnimalList.length)];

System.out.println(animal1 + " : " + animal2 + " = " + animal1.equals(animal2));
System.out.println(animal1 + " : " + animal3 + " = " + animal1.equals(animal3));
System.out.println(animal2 + " : " + animal3 + " = " + animal2.equals(animal3));

Answer 2

== is only for prime values (int, double ...)
equal is for objects (strings)

Answer 3

Thanks a lot for the attempt, Daniel. I didn't know about ".equals". 👍😊