[thelist] Random, Not the same Random twice

Seyon evolt at delime.com
Fri Mar 19 18:21:55 CST 2004


Message from Russ (3/19/2004 06:06 PM)
>All,
>
>I'm attempting to assign a random value to 3 different variables; I
>don't want the variables to be able to have duplicates of the same value
>(ie, they shouldn't both pull the number 2).

I've done something like this before.

My non-programmer's not-at-all-elegant approach was to do a conditional 
loop to check on each of the latter two random numbers, if they matched one 
previously selected, choose again.

regards.
-marc

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