Re: Assign a value to a variable
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg63021] Re: Assign a value to a variable
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:56:43 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 12/10/05 at 6:03 AM, ben.becker at gmx.de (Ben Becker) wrote:
>I have a list of variables: vars = {a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i}
>and a list of numbers: numbers = Range[9]
>Now i'd like to choose randomly a variable and a number. and then
>i'd like to assign the number to the variable. I thought of
>somehting like that:
>vars[[Random[Integer, {1, Length[vars]}]]] =
>numbers[[Random[Integer, {1, Length[numbers]}]]]
>but it doesn't work.
In[52]:=
Set[#,numbers[[Random[Integer,{1,9}]]]]&/@vars;
vars
Out[53]=
{2,2,9,1,7,6,5,1,5}
Note, this will not work when a, b, c ... have already been assigned values. Nor does it prevent two of your variables from being assigned the same value.
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