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lectricpharaoh · Apr 30th, 2008, 6:11 PM

This topic was discussed not too long ago in this thread. In post #8, I offered a solution using generics that will shuffle an array. Thus, you can easily create a 42-element array, initialize each element (inside a for() loop), and then hand the array off to be shuffled. This guarantees each value will appear once, and only once, within the array.

Apr 30th, 2008, 6:11 PM	#12
lectricpharaoh Caffeinated Neural Net Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Dry west coast of Canada Posts: 1,034 Rep Power: 5	Re: populate array with random nonrepeating #'s This topic was discussed not too long ago in this thread. In post #8, I offered a solution using generics that will shuffle an array. Thus, you can easily create a 42-element array, initialize each element (inside a `for()` loop), and then hand the array off to be shuffled. This guarantees each value will appear once, and only once, within the array. __________________ And once again, Probability proves itself willing to sneak into a back alley and service Drama as would a copper-piece harlot. - Vaarsuvius, Order of the Stick