repeat with i=

[Nonsanity]

I like Pete's best - closest to what I was thinking - but I'd change the
"put empty" line to "delete item y of x". I think the put empty would just
put "" into that item, but the item would still be there, like:  1,2,,4,5,6

 ~ Chris Innanen
 ~ Nonsanity


On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Pete <pete at mollysrevenge.com> wrote:

> Maybe (untested):
>
> put "1,2,3,4,5,6" into x
> repeat with i=1 to 6
>   put item random(the number of items in x) into y
>  <do whatever with y>
>  put empty into item y of x
> end repeat
>
> Pete
> Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>
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>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Timothy Miller <
> gandalf at doctortimothymiller.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Let's say that I want to do something like
> >
> > repeat with i = 1 to 6
> > do "whatever" & i
> > end repeat
> >
> > Except, I want 1 to 6 to be in random sequence
> >
> > I could think of a few kludgy ways to do this.
> >
> > Is there a standard approach? A simple approach?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
> >
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