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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Random Name Selection
« on: August 19, 2006, 02:43 PM »
Hi All,
Not sure if this has been asked and answered or not, so I'll drop it out there.
I have a list of names that I need to pull randomly from.
EZ so far,BUT...
From the list, I need to select the names, based on a number provided, so for instance from the full list I need 11 randomly picked names, then I need those names to not be part of the original list for selection again, so it basically shortens the list to those remaining.
Then would allow the names that were selected (say from a textfile) tobe saved to a file, maybe a textfile or a CSV file, something it could be pulled into another program if wanted.
Then, allow for the same number of selections again, from the remaining names, or allow for a new number to be input to select from the list remaining.
I hope that all makes sense?
Thanks in advance...
Randy
Not sure if this has been asked and answered or not, so I'll drop it out there.
I have a list of names that I need to pull randomly from.
EZ so far,BUT...
From the list, I need to select the names, based on a number provided, so for instance from the full list I need 11 randomly picked names, then I need those names to not be part of the original list for selection again, so it basically shortens the list to those remaining.
Then would allow the names that were selected (say from a textfile) tobe saved to a file, maybe a textfile or a CSV file, something it could be pulled into another program if wanted.
Then, allow for the same number of selections again, from the remaining names, or allow for a new number to be input to select from the list remaining.
I hope that all makes sense?
Thanks in advance...
Randy