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Avantar1975



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17th December, 2011 at 09:05:08 -

Hey! Hope someone can help...

If I have a text file loaded in a Rich Edit object that reads: (as an example)
Apples are nice. Apples are good. Apples are great.

How can I have only one sentance like: Apples are nice/great/good and have nice/great/good be selected at random?

So, in the program, I would either see: Apples are nice. OR Apples are great. OR Apples are good at random.

Thank you in advance!

 
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17th December, 2011 at 12:09:10 -

The easiest way would be to use a List object (untick "1-based index").
If you put each word/phrase on a new line, you can just pick a random line to display:

DisplayText = List Line Text$( "List", Random(List Nb Lines( "List" )))


Alternatively, you can add delimiters (characters which define the start/end of substrings or "tokens" within a longer string), and use one of the many tokenizing extensions:

MyString = "Apples are nice.|Apples are good.|Apples are great."
DisplayText = GetToken$( "Quick Token Object", MyString, "|",Random(GetNumberToken( "Quick Token Object", MyString, "|")))

 
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Avantar1975



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17th December, 2011 at 17:45:38 -

Thank you so much 4 the help and examples. I will swot delimiters and tokens a bit.
I believe String Parser2 and Regex Object can do the same?

 
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