Bill - I use a UDF that Dennis McGrath developed called RANDOM.EXE.
It allows you to set a min and max value for the range of random numbers.and the number of values you want returned. I use it in a Drug testing program to select employees for random testing - I put in the min and max number of employees and how many I need to select and it generates the list of people selected from the pool. Email me privately if you want code samples - hopefully Dennis will jump in and let us know what the availability of his UDF is. Sami ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Downall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 6:38 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Here's a Random question > Please help me remember if there is a way to "seed" the R:Base > RANDOM() function. > > Now, in a loop, it generates a series of random values that appear truly > random and well distributed. However, If I run the same program later, it > generates the SAME series of random values in the same order. > > I remember Wayne -- years ago -- explaining that this is a behavior useful > in testing, and that there was a way to make it truly random. I thought it > was a separate command like RANDOMIZE, but I can't find that. > > Thanks for your help. > > Bill > > > >
