How to shuffle pairs

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Published on 2010-04-13T04:42:42Z Indexed on 2010/04/13 5:03 UTC
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How to shuffle the elements in the pairs? The program below, generate all possible pairs and later shuffle the pairs. e.g. possible pairs before shuffle is ab,ac,ae,af..etc shuffled to ac,ae,af,ab...etc

How to make it not only shuffled in pairs but within the elements in the pair itself? e.g. instead of ab, ac, how can I make ba, ac ?

String[] pictureFile   = {"a.jpg","b.jpg","c.jpg","d.jpg","e.jpg","f.jpg","g.jpg"};
    List <String>  pic1= Arrays.asList(pictureFile);
    ...
ListGenerator pic2= new ListGenerator(pic1);

ArrayList<ArrayList<Integer>> pic2= new ArrayList<ArrayList<Integer>>();


public class ListGenerator {
    public ListGenerator(List<String> pic1) {
     int size = pic1.size();

     // create a list of all possible combinations
     for(int i = 0 ; i < size ; i++) {
        for(int j = (i+1) ; j < size ; j++) {
           ArrayList<Integer> temp = new ArrayList<Integer>();
           temp.add(i);
           temp.add(j);
              pic2.add(temp);
            }
        }
      Collections.shuffle(pic2);
    }

    //This method return the shuffled list
    public ArrayList<ArrayList<Integer>> getList()  {
         return pic2;
    }
}

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