On 23.05.2013 at 9:51 Uhr -0500 Geoff Canyon apparently wrote:
To Dar's point, here the stable sort means that you should never use this
to get a random sort:
sort lines of someContainer by random(the number of lines of someContainer)
You are almost guaranteed to get less than random results. Instead always
use something like
sort lines of someContainer by random(999999999)
gc
I wonder why nobody suggests adding "numeric" parameter to random
sorts like above. After all, the sort column is a number but without
that parameter is sorted as ascii text not numeric value.
Robert
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