What I have done in the past is to use
<cfset duplicatevalue = 1>
<cfloop condition="duplicatevalue eq 1">
generate random value...
if random value not in list then...
<cfset duplicatevalue = 0>
<cfloop>
HTH - Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: Francis, Jennifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 4:54 PM
Subject: Pre test / Post test
> I'm trying to create a pretest/post test with the same questions except
for
> the order changes for the post test. The question numbers & questions are
> stored in the database, so I just need to pull them by the question
number.
> I have tried to use randrange, but it creates duplicates. Is there an
easy
> way to make sure the list does not contain any duplicates?
>
> Here's what I have so far...
>
> <cfoutput>
> <cfset randlist="">
> <cfloop index="i" from="1" to="10">
> <CFSET randques="#randrange(1,10)#">
> <cfif listcontains(randlist, randques)>
> <CFSET randques="#randrange(1,10)#">
> </cfif>
> <cfset randlist=listappend(randlist, randques)>
> </cfloop>
> #randlist#
> </cfoutput>
>
>
> Jennifer Francis
> AT&T Wireless
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