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php random numbers without duplicate

I have php code below that creates random numbers when adding static number ;100 and divides numbers with |. It works well but creates duplicate numbers, how to make it prevent creating duplicate numbers?

echo shd be 3;100|2;100 but without duplicate numbers before ;100. but this code outputs numbers like 2;100|2;100 sometimes, that are duplicates.

<?php
$kat_list=array(1,2,3,4);

$count_cat= rand(2,3);

for ($i = 1; $i <= $count_cat; $i++) {
    $rnd_cat= rand(0,count($kat_list)-1);
    $kats[]=$kat_list[$rnd_cat].'--100';

}
$line=implode('-',$kats);

 $line=str_replace('--', ';', $line);
 $line=str_replace('-', '|', $line);
 


 echo $line;
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  1. 0

    You can use array_unique to remove duplicates before you implode the array

    $kat_list=array(1,2,3,4);

$count_cat= rand(2,3);

for ($i = 1; $i <= $count_cat; $i++) {
    $rnd_cat= rand(0,(count($kat_list)-1));
    $kats[]=$kat_list[$rnd_cat].'--100';

}

$kats = array_unique($kats);

$line=implode('-',$kats);

$line=str_replace('--', ';', $line);
$line=str_replace('-', '|', $line);
 
 echo $line;
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  2. 0 
    $kat_list=array(1,2,3,4);
shuffle($kat_list); // shuffle list
$count=3;
for($i=0; $i<$count; ++$i) {
    // get the first N items of the shuffled list
    printf("%d ", $kat_list[$i]);
}

    Try it: https://3v4l.org/a31pv

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