[Tutor] reading random line from a file

Tiger12506 keridee at jayco.net
Thu Jul 19 23:53:54 CEST 2007


> I think the best strategy for this problem would be to build an index of
> the offset of the start of each line, and then randomly select from this
> list.
> that makes each line equally probable, and you can set up your class so
> that the index is only built on the first call to the function.
> -Luke

Oh fudge! I knew there was a "best-way-to-do-it". Now I'm upset cuz i didn't 
think of it first. ;-)

JS 



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