random number help...

[Brad Borch]

Dar Scott wrote:

> 
> On Jul 12, 2005, at 12:09 PM, Paul Salyers wrote:
> 
>> What I need to do is to do that 100 times and store the random number 
>> is an aray
> 
> 
> I'm not sure what you are asking for.  Maybe this gets you to walking 
> distance:
> 
>   repeat with i = 1 to 100
>     put random(6)-1 into a[i]
>   end repeat
> 
> Dar
> 
You can sort items (string items) by random:

sort items of myVar numeric \
      by random(the number of items in myVar)

Perhaps this works with an array? If not, put items in a container, sort 
by random, then put in array.

Brad