Re: Random but unique

[Dar Scott]

On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 11:30 AM, Jim Hurley wrote:

sort lines of vChooseFrom by random(10000)  -- or some suitably big
number
return line 1 to vNumToChoose of vChooseFrom

I see how this works, and it is deliciously simple, but I don't see why. According to the documentation:

"The shortKey is a chunk expression that specifies which part of each line is used as the sort key. "

Here is my guess. You can probably try some tests to see if it is right.

You are missing the very tiny print after "sortKey". If you look very, very, very closely, the doc will read like this:

"The sortKey is an expression, typically a chunk expression that specifies ..."

This command:

sort lines of ... by blahBlahBlah

gets a sort key by calling (virtually) this function on each line:

function sortKey each
return blahBlahBlah
end if

If I'm right, you should be able to do other interesting sorts.

Dar Scott




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