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Tristan
Tristan

Reputation: 27

Small basic random letters

I'm batch file programmer but I'm experimenting with Small Basic. I know how to generate random numbers as a variable:

Math.getrandomnumber(number)

but I'm not sure how to generate random letters

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1713

Answers (3)

codingCat
codingCat

Reputation: 2406

Just to round out the list of suggestions, you can do random anything using arrays.

hex[0] = "0"
hex[1] = "1"
hex[2] = "2"
...
hex[10] = "A"
hex[11] = "B"
hex[12] = "C"
hex[13] = "D"
hex[14] = "E"
hex[15] = "F"

randomHexDigit = hex[Math.GetRandomNumber(16) - 1]

The above will produce a random hex digit from the array.

Upvotes: 1

Shabby Cat
Shabby Cat

Reputation: 31

I don't really know, but if you are dealing with just a few letters, for example ABC, I would do this:

Code:

number = Math.GetRandomNumber(3)
If number = 1 Then
    letter = A
Elseif number = 2 Then
    letter = B
Elseif number = 3 Then
    letter = C
EndIf

This should help.

Upvotes: 1

Zock77
Zock77

Reputation: 1017

Here you are! Like Tobberoth said, use text.GetCharacter for this. here is the code:

RandNum = Math.GetRandomNumber(25) + 65 'Get a number between 65 and 90 (See ASCII)
RandText = Text.GetCharacter(RandNum)
TextWindow.WriteLine(RandText)

Upvotes: 3

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