Random Words

[fabulos]

how do i pick random words from a list of words? like

Helo
Bye
Good Day
Good Bye


thx

[xHoly-Divinity]

Firstly you must use randint. It would end up looking something like this...

code:

var x : int randint (x, 1, 4) if x = 1 then     put "hello" elsif x = 2 then     put "Bye" elsif x = 3 then     put "Good day" elsif x = 4 then     put "Good bye" end if

[Neo]

Store your words in an array and call them using Rand.Int.

code:

var word : array 1 .. 4 of string := init ("Hello", "Bye", "GoodBye", "GoodDay") put word (Rand.Int (1, 4))

[basketball4ever]

If you dont like using arrays : P like myself cos i'm strange...
you can always use case

works just like an if statement... but IMO better...
store all of em as
word1
word2
word3
word4
then rand em

[SuperGenius]

basketball4ever wrote:

If you dont like using arrays : P like myself cos i'm strange...
you can always use case

works just like an if statement... but IMO better...
store all of em as
word1
word2
word3
word4
then rand em

don't listen. This is terrible form.

[MysticVegeta]

I agree, if you can do a random word using 2 lines of code and between unlimited words then why use a case?

[person]

i agree with "SuperGenius" and "Mystic Vegeta", arrays are so much better than unlimited number of codes

[MysticVegeta]

fabulos wrote:

how do i pick random words from a list of words? like

Helo
Bye
Good Day
Good Bye


thx

Here is the code :

code:

var words : array 1 .. 4 of string := init ("hello", "Hi", "Bye", "GoodBye") put words (Rand.Int (1, 4))

not so hard with arrays now is it, all you gotta do is make the array to 1..(whatever number u wish) and insert the same amount of strings separated by spaces in the array. Then, edit the Rand.Int formula to 1, (the number of strings you chose)

[fabulos]

wow...thanks so much!!!...

this'll help me a lot for my french exam..lol

thx again

[DarkBlazer]

lol.... w/e just wanted to say case isnt good example for this problem (been there done that)

[mike200015]

how would you use that type of thing, but say you wanted to use 50 words?
would you have to still use :=init (.....) and set what all the words are?

[basketball4ever]

mike200015 wrote:

how would you use that type of thing, but say you wanted to use 50 words?
would you have to still use :=init (.....) and set what all the words are?

unless you're importing a text file... yes you would have to do that.