[Remind-Fans] Random number

[David F. Skoll]

On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Ari Reitkivi wrote:

> I need to set variable A random whole number 1 to 5000.
> Is there any way to do it in remind?

Not directly, but if your system shell (/bin/sh) is really bash:

set a shell("echo $RANDOM")
set a (coerce("int", a) % 5000) + 1

I don't know how to do it if your shell is not bash.  I could add a
random() function to the next release.

Regards,

David.