Re: avoiding duplicate values

2001-06-07 Thread David Gilden
> On Jun 7, David Gilden said: > > >@colors = qw[ #F0F8FF #00 #7FFFD4 #F0 #F5F5DC #FFE4C4 #4169E1 > >#8B4513 #FA8072 #F4A460 #2E8B57 #A0522D ]; > > > > > ># choose a color! > >$color_choice1 = rand $#colors; On Thursday, June 7, 2001 at 3:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan) w

Re: avoiding duplicate values

2001-06-07 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jun 7, David Gilden said: >@colors = qw[ #F0F8FF #00 #7FFFD4 #F0 #F5F5DC #FFE4C4 #4169E1 >#8B4513 #FA8072 #F4A460 #2E8B57 #A0522D ]; > > ># choose a color! >$color_choice1 = rand $#colors; You're never going to select "#A0522D" this way -- you need to use rand(@colors), not rand($#col

avoiding duplicate values

2001-06-07 Thread David Gilden
Is this the correct way to avoid getting the same value twice? # Text colors @colors = qw[ #F0F8FF #00 #7FFFD4 #F0 #F5F5DC #FFE4C4 #4169E1 #8B4513 #FA8072 #F4A460 #2E8B57 #A0522D ]; # choose a color! $color_choice1 = rand $#colors; # make sure we don't get same color twice $color_c