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From: martin@m2.csc.ti.com (Steven Martin)
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Subject: Re: XFCN--randomly selecting a word from a field
Keywords: XFCN
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Date: 14 Dec 89 14:45:10 GMT
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In article <74944@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Howard P Marvel <marvel@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>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.

Yecchh! :-)  How about:

any word of field spell

It's amazing how many little commands like this there are and how few
people actually know about them.

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