Re: RANDOM function with COBOL400? -- COBOL400-L

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Subject: Re: RANDOM function with COBOL400?
From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:30:57 -0500
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From: Leif Svalgaard <leif@leif.org>


Kelly wrote:
I have to generate a list of randomly selected
employees for drug testing.


you can use any random number generator, but
you have to make sure that the same number does
not come up again, so keep a table of people
selected and check against the table. If already
selected, just generate a new one (and check again,
etc).

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