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Col
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Posted: 7th Jan 2003 03:46
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Could anyone help me with this, I have the feeling the answer is obvious, but I can't for the life of me find a way round it:

I want to select one word randomly from a group of words in much the same way one selects a random number. Is there a quick way of doing this, for instance by listing all the words together.
So far I have only been able to assign each word an individual value, and then check each value with an IF THEN statement. There must be a more efficient way.

Any help greatly appreciated
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Xsniper
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Posted: 7th Jan 2003 04:33
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I would recommend making a string array that holds all your words and then do a if - then statement on a random value which will be able to select your word. The reason for this is by making an array each word is assigned a value anyway from 0 to whatever the max array size is. So do your random value and check if your array(value) is equal to that value, etc. Hope I explained that well enough.

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Hamish McHaggis
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Posted: 8th Jan 2003 00:02
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Just expanding on what xsniper said, use something like



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Col
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Posted: 12th Jan 2003 23:12
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Great. Think I'm getting my head round this.
It's really great of you guys to be giving up your time to help newcomers to programming BTW
Cheers

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