Hi REBOLers:
Among many other REBOLian projects, I am putting my ref book, THE SANDERS
PRICE GUIDE TO AUTOGRAPHS on line. It has over 80,000 prices. Until
REBOL/command is available and I can use mySQL, I've got the info on the
server as a tab-delimited text file. I read it into REBOL via this
technique:
a: read/lines %auto.db
a: to-hash a
b: []
random/seed now/time
repeat count 10 [append b pick a (random ((length? a) - 10))
]
You can a test of this in action (getting 10 random lookups every time
Refresh is hit) at http://abooks.com/cgi-bin/randauto.r.
My question: can anyone suggest a more efficient way to doing this?
Thanks,
--Ralph Roberts
REBmeister,
ALEXANDER BOOKS
