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[miscdas at boxfrog.com]

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Dar Scott writes: 

> On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 03:52 PM, Sarah wrote: 
> 
>> sort lines of vChooseFrom by random(10000)  -- or some suitably big 
>> number return line 1 to vNumToChoose of vChooseFrom
> 
> That's not fair!  That's using your superior knowledge of Revolution commands!

> Dar Scott

Dar, 

In MetaCard, no superior knowledge of commands required: 

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search for: sort
sort command 

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To randomize the order of the lines of a field:
sort field "numbers" by random(1000) 

miscdas