Re: as is what?
Re: as is what?
- Subject: Re: as is what?
- From: Nigel Garvey <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 10:58:11 +0100
Christopher Stone wrote on Wed, 27 Aug 2003 07:00:00 -0500:
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At 20:22 +0900 08/26/2003, micro-people wrought:
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>write (random number from 100 to 5000 as text) to fh
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I just glanced at this, but what jumped out at me is above.
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The line above isn't coercing the random number to text; it is coercing
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5000 to text and then back into a number during the calculation.
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set rn to random number from 100 to 5000 as text
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set rnClass to class of rn
Ah! The result's a real. 'Random number' only returns integers when both
parameters are integers. Something to remember when either parameter is
obtained from another process in the script.
NG
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