Hello Forum,
Notwithstanding my recent threads in the 'Feature Suggestions' forum, I have a challenge for you.
I would like to join 3 channels in a random order. The trivial solution is to enumerate the possible orders of the list, and pick a random integer 1..6. [untested]
var %rand0 $rand(1,6)
if (%rand0 == 1)
join A B C
elseif (%rand0 == 2)
join A C B
elseif (%rand0 == 3)
join B A C
elseif (%rand0 == 4)
join B C A
elseif (%rand0 == 5)
join C A B
elseif (%rand0 == 6)
join C B A
But this is unwieldy, and inconvenient for a list of 4 channels, let alone 5 channels with 120 permutations or 6 with 720.
How do you shuffle a list in MSL?