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  • Subject: Re: Select some item of...
  • From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 05:36:16 +0100

At 10:57 PM +0000 03/11/03, Peter Beentje wrote:
>Yeah, I wrote all my scripts from scratch without reference until about 2 months ago, pulling myself up by my bootstraps all the way; I never worked out the syntax for seeding properly. I haven't thought of a way to combine 'random number with seed of...' and 'set x to some item of...' either; anyone care to suggest a way?

Suppose you issue one "random number with seed [current date]" (did not check the syntax) before each "some item", I suppose that this would fairly well randomize things for you?

Emmanuel
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