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Old August 2nd, 2004, 10:10 PM
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Hi, does anybody know how I can randomly output sets of 6 values to an output file. The purpose of this is to make a scratch card competition, therefore I must be able to guarentee that there are only a certain amout of winners for each prize.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Search help for the RANDOM function and the RANDOMIZE statement.


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Old August 3rd, 2004, 12:28 PM
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Greg,
maybe you meant Rnd and Randomize...
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You're right, Marco... too many Microsoft product functions in my head!

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