Randomizing without repeating the same word twice

[gilis]

Thanks! the problem however is still not solved as the example of
noRepeat refer to randomizing nested lists while I'm interested in
randomizing words from the same list which repeat itself several
times.

On Oct 18, 4:15 pm, David McFarlane <mcfar... at msu.edu> wrote:
> Gilis,
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> That said, here is my take...
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> "Randomization with constraints" is very tricky in E-Prime, and has
> been discussed extensively on the message boards.  Try searching for
> "random", "pseudorandom", or "constraint" both here at the Google
> Group and at the PST Forum.  Also see the "NoRepeat" examples
> downloadable fron PST.  And again, do not neglect PST Support, they
> would love to hear from you.
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> -- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
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> public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."  (Richard Feynman,
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> >Sorry for bothering the groups so often, but I just tackled a road
> >stone in my programming. Words are selected from an attribute which
> >contain 10 words and lied in a block that is nested in the main list.
> >The words are selected randomly in the block but the list run the
> >block 20 times (at list so I weighted the block in the main list
> >though it doesn't seem to run it 20 times, which is another
> >problem...) so it happen that the same word repeat itself twice (e.g.,
> >food, apple, juice, fork, spoon, orange, sandwich, beach, ocean,
> >river, river: in this instance river appeared last in the first time
> >the block was run and first in the second so it actually repeated
> >itself)  -how can I avoid that?

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