randomly order a list

[Randy Hengst]

Chris,

I think your problem is the use of the word "lines"…

These versions will show the difference:
on mouseUp
  local myVar
   put "one,two,three" into myVar
   put myVar
   wait 30
   sort lines of myVar by random(10000)
    put myVar
end mouseUp

on mouseUp
  local myVar
   put "one,two,three" into myVar
   put myVar
   wait 30
   sort items of myVar by random(10000)
   put myVar
end mouseUp

on mouseUp
   local myVar
   put "one" & return & "two" & return & "three" into myVar -- now myVar has lines
   put myVar
   wait 30
   sort lines of myVar by random(10000
   put myVar
end mouseUp
be well,
randy
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On May 22, 2013, at 12:59 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote:

> I have a list of three words that I need to be randomly sorted. To start with, the first word is the correct answer to a question. I want to re-order the list so that the correct answer may be the second or third word, and not necessarily the first. How can I do this successfully every time? The docs give an example like this:
> 
> 	sort lines of myVar by random(the number of lines of myVar)
> 
> But this only seems to work successfully one time. After that, the list is always set so the first word is the correct answer. So then I tried randomly setting the randomSeed value, since this value is supposed to affect the random() function and the any keyword, but this didn't seem to make much difference except to change it so either the second or third word is *always* the right answer. I need it to be more mixed up than that.
> 
> So does anyone have a good way to do this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
> 
> --
> Chris Sheffield
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> 
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