Hey Guys after analysing the multitude of responses I finally went with the shortest code! It works perfect & fast, thats all I needed.... repeat until the number of items in tRnum = 5
set randomSeed to random(10000) put random(10) into tRand if tRand is not among the items of tRnum then put tRand & comma after tRnum end repeat Thanx to all....... Dwayne > On Jan 28, 2005, at 11:08 AM, Michael D Mays wrote: > > > What does it mean to sort "1,2,3,4,5" by 12? > > > > Maybe it should be > > sort items of x numeric by random(10000) > > Yes! Sorry about that. > > I think sort by 12 effectively means to associate 12 with each item and > then sort by the associated value. The sort by random(10000) would > then mean to associate a random value with each item and sort by that. > The sort by char -1 or each would associate the last char of each item > with the item and sort by that. > > I don't know if it actually implemented that way; it might be the > sorting expression is evaluated repeatedly with each comparison. Maybe > one can run a test with a side effect (say counting) to find out. > > Dar > > ********************************************** _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution