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From: marvel@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Howard P Marvel)
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Subject: Re: XFCN--randomly selecting a word from a field
Keywords: XFCN
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Date: 13 Dec 89 16:47:16 GMT
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In article <7417@hubcap.clemson.edu> dragon@hubcap.clemson.edu (Michael E. Quattlebaum) writes:
>I need an XFCN that will go out and randomly select a word from a
>field.  This will be used in an educational stack that selects 
>words for a student to practice a spelling excercise.  I will be
>willing to write this if need be, but why reinvent the wheel, huh?
>Please send e-mail with ftp sites, etc.  if such a beast exists.

Why do you need an XFCN?  

	put the number of words in field spell into foo
	put word random(foo) of field spell into spellword

I haven't tried this, but it looks ok.