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Old November 29th, 2003, 04:54 AM
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Red face raffle program

Hi all,

I am searching for a script to make a random selection of sudent numbers, the student numbers are stored in access DB, and the program must select 10 winners one by one and the one selected must not be selected next time the program runs.


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personally, I would use the number of records in the table as the upper bound of the Rnd() function to generate a random number. Something like this maybe...

Code:
'assume rsRecordset and cnConnection already declared

Private Sub Form_Load()
Dim CurrStudent As Integer
Dim intStudents() As Integer
Dim Upperbound As Integer
Dim blnInArray As Boolean
Dim intI As Integer, intJ As Integer
Dim NumRequiredStudents As Integer

Upperbound = (rsRecordset.recordcount - 1)

'assign numrequired students to exact number needed (1-based)
For intJ = 0 To NumRequiredStudents - 1
    CurrStudent = CInt((Upperbound * Rnd) + 0)

    For intI = 0 To UBound(intStudents)
        If intStudents(i) = CurrStudent Then
            blnInArray = True
        Else
            blnInArray = False
        End If
    Next intI

    If blnInArray = False Then
        ReDim Preserve intStudents(UBound(intStudents) + 1)
        intStudents(UBound(intStudents)) = CurrStudent
    Else
        intJ = intJ - 1
    End If
    
Next intJ

End Sub


I haven't field tested this yet, so it may need a little tweaking
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