If you want random sorts, don't change the randomseed. It's set for you on startup, and only should be set if you want non-random things to happen.
If you sort three lines randomly there's a pretty high chance that a given line remains on the same line for two consecutive times. It's not 'always' but often. Three is just not very random to begin with :) If you want to make sure a given line is at a given place, you should insert it yourself, and not rely on sort, because that's random, and includes your chosen line. For example: put "option1" & return & "option2" into theLines sort theLines by random(the number of lines of theLines) put "option3" & return before line random(2) of theLines --will never be last line On 22.05.2013, at 19:59, Chris Sheffield 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 an alternative Dictionary viewer: http://bjoernke.com/bvgdocu/ Chat with other RunRev developers: http://bjoernke.com/chatrev/ _______________________________________________ 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
