I made a typo:
delete line random_line_number of the_lines
should be
delete line random_line_number of some_lines
(see below)
Sorry,
Michael
On May 23, 2013, at 12:07 PM, Michael Mays <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
HERE
> 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 <[email protected]> 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
>>
>>
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