I made a typo: delete line random_line_number of the_lines should be delete line random_line_number of some_lines (see below) Sorry, Michael On May 23, 2013, at 12:07 PM, Michael Mays <michael_livec...@nayyan.com> wrote:
> As I understand the sort command the syntax is something like: > sort this_group _of_thing by the _text _values_in _this _other_thing > so what it seems like to me is that Randy is saying > sort the_lines_in_this_thing by either_1_or_2_or_3 > In other words the lines are being sorted by a constant: 1 or 2 or 3. And > since lines of a container are being sorted, shouldn't the sort key be some > part of each line being sorted?? > > I don't think the sort command is what Randy needs. He needs a shuffle > function: > > on mouseUp > put "cat" into line 1 of my_lines > put "rat" into line 2 of my_lines > put "dog" into line 3 of my_lines > put Shuffle_The_Lines(my_lines) into my_shuffled_lines > put my_shuffled_lines > end mouseUp > > function Shuffle_The_Lines some_lines > repeat with counter = number of lines in some_lines down to 1 > put (random (counter)) into random_line_number > put line random_line_number of some_lines into random_line > put random_line into line counter of shuffled_lines HERE > delete line random_line_number of the_lines > end repeat > return shuffled_lines > end Shuffle_The_Lines > > Michael > On May 23, 2013, at 1:59 AM, Chris Sheffield <cmsheffi...@icloud.com> 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 >> Read Naturally, Inc. >> www.readnaturally.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode