$Random Seed

Build seed specifying series of $RANDOM results

Most Sirius $functions have been deprecated in favor of Object Oriented methods. The OO equivalent for the $Random_Seed function is the RandomNumberGenerator class.

This function sets a %variable or IMAGE item to a value that can be used by $Random, so that the series of numbers returned by $Random is reproducible.

$Random_Seed accepts two required arguments and returns zero.

The first argument is a %variable or IMAGE item to be set to a random number seed. This argument must be a string of length at least 144.

The second argument specifies a number that determines the $Random series. This argument must be greater than or equal to -1,000,000,000 and less than or equal to 1,000,000,000.

Syntax

<section begin="syntax" /> %RESULT = $Random_Seed(%SEED, seed_value) <section end="syntax" />

$Random_Seed Function

%SEED is initialized for a series of $Random results that depends on seed_value.

If any argument is invalid or omitted, the request is cancelled.

See the description of $Random for examples of the use of $Random_Seed.

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