Picking a random element from a set

Can't you just get the size/length of the set/array, generate a random number between 0 and the size/length, then call the element whose index matches that number? HashSet has a .size() method, I'm pretty sure.

In psuedocode -

function randFromSet(target){
 var targetLength:uint = target.length()
 var randomIndex:uint = random(0,targetLength);
 return target[randomIndex];
}

PHP, using MT:

$items_array = array("alpha", "bravo", "charlie");
$last_pos = count($items_array) - 1;
$random_pos = mt_rand(0, $last_pos);
$random_item = $items_array[$random_pos];