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From: jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: XFCN--randomly selecting a word from a field
Keywords: XFCN
Message-ID: <37280@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 15 Dec 89 01:46:49 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?

No need for an XFCN. This can be done with the following line:

  get any word of field "foobar"
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