I know the subject of random numbers has been brought up before, and we all
know
about SYSRANDOM at this point. It's applying that knowledge in a practical
way I have
a question about.
I was wondering if anyone has a better way of "shuffling" records in a data
file, for
a quiz application. What I'm doing is taking TimGetTicks as the seed for
SysRandom,
using that to randomly pull a record and set an ORDER field. I increment
the value for
the ORDER field and do this all over again, hoping to randomly fill my
records with
an incrementing number. I then call DmQuickSort sorting on that ORDER
value.
It's not working too well. Has anybody got a better way to do this? There
must
be one, this stinks.
Stephen Bentley
www.middlecross.com
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