Random but unique, more info

Sarah sarahr at genesearch.com.au
Sun Jan 12 17:58:00 EST 2003


It seems to me that everyone is being too complicated. What about:

sort lines of vChooseFrom by random(10000)  -- or some suitably big 
number
return line 1 to vNumToChoose of vChooseFrom


Cheers,
Sarah

On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 06:23  am, tkuypers at pandora.be wrote:

> Ok, I believe I need to give some more info on this subject.
>
> VChooseFrom is a list containing numbers:
>    1
>    2
>    3
>    4
>    5
>    6
>    7
>    8
>    9
>    10
>    11
>    12
>    and so on...
>
> VNumToChoose contains the number of lines to randomly select from
> VChooseFrom:
>    5
>
> How do I pick randomly five lines out of vChooseFrom, putting them into
> vSelected:
>    10
>    7
>    9
>    12
>    1
>
> If "1" is not in vSelected then put "1" and cr after vSelected won't 
> work
> because "1" is in "10" and in "12"
>
>
> I hate these "small" problems, they take up so many time :-((
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Ton Kuypers
>
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