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Library: omutil - miscellaneous system utilities
Include: omutil.xin

Declaration

  define external function UTIL_Srand ( value integer seed )


Purpose

This function provides a seed for a sequence of pseudo-random numbers that will be produced by the UTIL_Rand function.

Example:

  ; generate a seed for a random number
  include "omutil.xin"
  process
     local integer seed initial {1}
     local integer RandomNumber initial {0}
     set seed to UTIL_GetMilliSecondTimer
     output "The seed is: %d(seed)%n"   UTIL_Srand(seed)   ; sets the seed   set RandomNumber to UTIL_Rand   output "Random Number =" || "d" % RandomNumber

        Other Library Functions
   UTIL_Env
   UTIL_ExpRand
   UTIL_GetEnv
   UTIL_GetMilliSecondTimer
   UTIL_GetProcessId
   UTIL_IsVersionCompatible
   UTIL_LibraryVersion
   UTIL_Rand
   UTIL_Sleep
   UTIL_SortIntegersByKey
   UTIL_SortIntegersByValue
   UTIL_SortStreamsByKey
   UTIL_SortStreamsByValue
   UTIL_SortSwitchesByKey
   UTIL_Srand
   UTIL_UniformRand
 
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