...so for a random selection, enforcing the use of all 6 items, would this work?
put "1,2,3,4,5,6" into x
repeat until x is empty
put any item of x into y
do something
delete item y from x
end repeat
Best,
Keith..
On 14 Jul 2011, at 05:58, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 7/13/11 11:33 PM, Pete wrote:
>> You're right, should probably be something like "replace y& comma with
>> empty in x".
>
> Plain old "delete" does it.
>
> Also, not everyone knows about the "any" keyword but it's really handy for
> lines like this:
>
> put item random(the number of items in x) of x into y
>
> Which is more readable as:
>
> put any item of x into y
>
> I'm very fond of "any".
>
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