As I understand the sort command the syntax is something like:
sort this_group _of_thing by the _text _values_in _this _other_thing
so what it seems like to me is that Randy is saying
sort the_lines_in_this_thing by either_1_or_2_or_3
In other words the lines are being sorted by a constant: 1 or 2 or 3. And since
lines of a container are being sorted, shouldn't the sort key be some part of
each line being sorted??
I don't think the sort command is what Randy needs. He needs a shuffle function:
on mouseUp
put "cat" into line 1 of my_lines
put "rat" into line 2 of my_lines
put "dog" into line 3 of my_lines
put Shuffle_The_Lines(my_lines) into my_shuffled_lines
put my_shuffled_lines
end mouseUp
function Shuffle_The_Lines some_lines
repeat with counter = number of lines in some_lines down to 1
put (random (counter)) into random_line_number
put line random_line_number of some_lines into random_line
put random_line into line counter of shuffled_lines
delete line random_line_number of the_lines
end repeat
return shuffled_lines
end Shuffle_The_Lines
Michael
On May 23, 2013, at 1:59 AM, Chris Sheffield <cmsheffi...@icloud.com> 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
>
>
> --
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>
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