Re: randomizing trouble

In article <7vzXl.1624$u86.17@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ben <abc@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a gawk script that puts random comments into a file. It is run 3
times in a row in quick succession. I found that seeding the random
number generator using gawk did not work because all 3 times it was run
was done within the same second (and it uses the time) - so I decided to

When last I ran into this problem, what I did was to save the last value
returned by rand() to a file, then on the next run, read that in and use
that value as the arg to srand(). Worked well.

Note: You may have to multiply the value by something like 32000 since
rand() returns a small decimal and srand() takes an integer. Anyway,
you get the idea...

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