I know, baja is old school, but For now, that's what I am comfortable with. I know haw to build a progem using random lines or one liners, but how do I select random paragraphs (4 or 5 lines). Can it be done. I'm trying to make a quotes program for login. As always, thanks

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Re: Baja Random Paragrphs
By: DesotoFireflite to All on Sun Jan 12 2014 03:12 am

I know, baja is old school, but For now, that's what I am comfortable with. I know haw to build a progem using random lines or one liners, but how do I select random paragraphs (4 or 5 lines). Can it be done. I'm trying to make a quotes program for login. As always, thanks

the best way to do that is to have each multiple line quote written to a separate file. otherwise, if you want it to be in one single file, you need to follow some type of standard where each quote is exactly a certain amount of lines, or you use some type of marker within the file to keep track of where you are and where you're going. it would get very complicated.
that's the only way i can think of doing it, but i'm sure there's another way.

if you dont want to devote a ton of time to it, i would go with having each quote in a separate file.
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Re: Baja Random Paragrphs
By: Mro to DesotoFireflite on Sun Jan 12 2014 09:00 am

the best way to do that is to have each multiple line quote written to a separate file. otherwise, if you want it to be in one single file, you need to follow some type of standard where each quote is exactly a certain amount of lines, or you use some type of marker within the file to keep track of where you are and where you're going.

I'm using that same scenarios as an excuse to learn more javascript. I have the Oblique Strategies deck displayed one line at a time on menus, and broke the files into separate files. I'd like to set a variable N to the # of lines in a single file, cast a random number between 1 and N, and read that line instead.

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On Sun, 12 Jan 2014, DesotoFireflite wrote to All:

I know, baja is old school, but For now, that's what I am
comfortable with. I know haw to build a progem using random lines or
one liners, but how do I select random paragraphs (4 or 5 lines).
Can it be done. I'm trying to make a quotes program for login. As
always, thanks

the quotes programs i've seen generally use a '%' on a blank line between each section... they generate an index based on the line number of each '%' and then
choose which section to post by choosing a random number in the range of the index count... then the index for that section tells what line to start reading
from... the code simply reads until it runs into the next '%' or the end of the
file... OR one might subtract the line to start at from that of the next section to get a number of lines to read...

eg:
%
line 1
line 2
line 3
%
another line 1
another line 2
%
foo line
bar line
foobar line
furby line


the above is indented for clarity... the '%' are flush left and the other lines
may be offset and preformatted if desired...

i have code for this written in either php or perl... it is in use on my website and is what presents the random quote in the blue box on my main page... it chooses a quote from a number of quote files or i can set it to choose quotes from only one file... it is fashioned after the "fortune" program
on *nix systems...

http://www.wpusa.dynip.com/

for an example... simply refresh the page to get a new quote... there's over 10000 IIRC and more are easily added ;)

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Re: Baja Random Paragrphs
By: DesotoFireflite to All on Sun Jan 12 2014 03:12:15

I know, baja is old school, but For now, that's what I am comfortable

Here's a thought, why not someone write a BAJA 2 JAVASCRIPT converter program.

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Re: Baja Random Paragrphs
By: KF5QEO to DesotoFireflite on Sun Jan 12 2014 12:22 pm

Re: Baja Random Paragrphs
By: DesotoFireflite to All on Sun Jan 12 2014 03:12:15

I know, baja is old school, but For now, that's what I am comfortable

Here's a thought, why not someone write a BAJA 2 JAVASCRIPT converter program.

well you can still use baja and you can still execute baja from .js
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Re: Baja Random Paragrphs
By: Mro to DesotoFireflite on Sun Jan 12 2014 09:00 am

the best way to do that is to have each multiple line quote written to a separate file. otherwise, if you want it to be in one single file, you need to follow some type of standard where each quote is exactly a certain amount of lines, or you use some type of marker within the file to keep track of where you are and where you're going. it would get very complicated. that's the only way i can think of doing it, but i'm sure there's another way.

if you dont want to devote a ton of time to it, i would go with having each quote in a separate file.

I was thinking about that actually, but wondered if there was another way. Thanks for the reply:)

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Re: Baja Random Paragrphs
By: mark lewis to DesotoFireflite on Sun Jan 12 2014 11:37 am

the quotes programs i've seen generally use a '%' on a blank line
between each section... they generate an index based on the line number
of each '%' and then choose which section to post by choosing a random number in the range of the index count... then the index for that
i have code for this written in either php or perl... it is in use on my

I'm just learning Baja, so this may be a very stupid question, but you mentioned php and perl, are they anything like baja codeing wise?

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On Sun, 12 Jan 2014, DesotoFireflite wrote to mark lewis:

the quotes programs i've seen generally use a '%' on a blank line
between each section... they generate an index based on the line
number of each '%' and then choose which section to post by
choosing a random number in the range of the index count... then
the index for that i have code for this written in either php or
perl... it is in use on my [...]

I'm just learning Baja, so this may be a very stupid question, but
you mentioned php and perl, are they anything like baja codeing
wise?

not sure how to answer that... many languages are similar to C or Pascal or similar... they're not too hard to read and figure out for the most part... i've not done anything in baja but i have done some javascript and they're very
close... i can make my code available to you so you can see what it does and maybe either convert it to baja or use it for ideas on how to perform your task
in baja...

contact me privately if you are interested ;)

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Re: Baja Random Paragrphs
By: DesotoFireflite to Mro on Sun Jan 12 2014 05:39 pm

I was thinking about that actually, but wondered if there was another way. Thanks for the reply:)

i think having them in separate files is the easiest way in many ways.
also makes it easy to make it random.
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Re: Baja Random Paragrphs
By: mark lewis to DesotoFireflite on Sun Jan 12 2014 07:42 pm

contact me privately if you are interested ;)

Tks

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