Random but unique

Jim Lambert jiml at netrin.com
Sat Jan 11 16:06:00 EST 2003


6 Lava lamps + 6 digital cameras
results in truly random seed numbers.
http://www.lavarnd.org

Strange but true.

>- I¹ve got a variable with x lines where each line has got a unique ID
>- I need to get a subset out of this variable of y lines

>Removing values is not what I need, I need these
>values, or am I missing something...

Maybe you could go at it backwards.

put origVariable into newVariable
repeat for (the number of lines of origVariable - numberOfLinesWanted) --In
other words x-y
 delete line random(the number of lines of newVariable)
end repeat

newVariable should now contain y lines

Jim Lambert




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