[TF] Rand()

[drake at libcom.c. (D. Wilson)]

Quoth James West <ja...@ze...>, on Sun 09 Feb 2003:
> I'm trying to assign the result of rand() to a variable and failing
> horribly, I assumed that:
> 
> /def getrandom = /let var1=rand(0,9)%;/echo %(var1}

This sets var1 to the string "rand(0,9)".  To evaluate it as an
expression, you need to put $[...] around it, like so:

/def getrandom =/let var1=$[rand(0,9)]%;/echo %{var1}

   ---> Drake Wilson
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