Dont you mean || at the last loop? You loop as long as 3 is equal to both 1 and 2, || would cause it to loop while it's equal to any of them..
-- // DvDmanDT MSN: dvdmandt€hotmail.com Mail: dvdmandt€telia.com ########################## Please, if you are using windows, you may be infected by Swen. Please go here to find out more: http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=helpCenter&hcName=swen http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ########################## "Ray Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i meddelandet news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Before you add a number to a string make sure that the number is not in > any of the other ones if they exist. > > Use a do-while loop on it... > > $one = rand( 1,20 ); > do { > $two = rand( 1, 20 ); > }while( $two == $one ); > > do { > $three = rand( 1, 20 ); > }while( ($three == $one) && ($three == $two) ); > > echo "One: $one\n"; > echo "Two: $two\n"; > echo "Three: $three\n"; > > HTH > > -- > Ray > > On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 05:26, Ian Gray wrote: > > I am tring to output 3 different random numbers between 1 > > and 20 into 3 different strings. Using Rand() for each > > string isn't sufficient as I may get the same number > > repeated for one of the other strings- eg 1,1,3 or 5,3,3 . > > It's important that I get three different numbers outputted > > into for example $one, $two, $three. > > > > Can anyone help? > > > > Ian > > > > ===== > > > > --------------------------------- > > Ian A. Gray > > Manchester, UK > > Telephone: +44 (0) 161 224 1635 - Fax: +44 (0) 870 135 0061 - Mobile: +44 (0) 7900 996 328 > > Business Enquiries: +44(0)870 770 8832 > > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: www.baritone.uk.com (Performance) www.vocalstudio.co.uk (Vocal Tuition)www.selectperformers.com (Web design for professional musicians) > > --------------------------------- -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php