Random access strings in file

[par...@my-dejanews.com]

Hi,

This is a sch project .wonder any can help ?

i have a file that stores ten phrases.
How do i access each phrase in random ?

thanks

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[Thomas Matthews]

Read the strings into an array of strings. Count the number of phrases.
Generate a random array index between 0 or 1 and the number of strings. Use
this as an index into the array.

So, what language?

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[Taswar Bhatti]

Why don't u read the phrase into an array and use a random number
generator to choose an index in the array.
Bye,
Taz

[Irv Mullins]

par...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This is a sch project .wonder any can help ?
>
> i have a file that stores ten phrases.
> How do i access each phrase in random ?
>

atom fn
object phrase

fn = open("PHRASES.DAT","r")
for i = 1 to rand(10) do
phrase = gets(fn)
end for
puts(1,phrase)

Irv

[Peter Shaggy Haywood]

Groovy hepcat par...@my-dejanews.com was jivin' on Thu, 22 Apr 1999
18:01:57 GMT in comp.programming.
Random access strings in file's a cool scene! Dig it!

>i have a file that stores ten phrases.

How are they stored? What format? Delimited how?

>How do i access each phrase in random ?

System? Language? Compiler/assembler/interpreter/whatever? We need
more information here, man.
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