Question

I created a trivia game using visual basic for applications (Excel) that chooses questions by going through a case statement where the cases are numbers. I have the program randomly select a number from 1 to the max amount of questions there are. Using this method, the game repeats questions.

Is there a way to make something that generates numbers randomly (different results every time) and doesn’t repeat a number more than once? And after it’s gone through all the numbers it needs to execute a certain code. (I’ll put in code that ends the game and displays the number of questions they got right and got wrong)

I thought of a few different ways to do this, however I couldn’t even begin to think of what the syntax might be.

Answer 1

Sounds like you need an Array Shuffler!

Check out the below link –
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/ShuffleArray.aspx

Function ShuffleArray(InArray() As Variant) As Variant()
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' ShuffleArray
' This function returns the values of InArray in random order. The original
' InArray is not modified.
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    Dim N As Long
    Dim Temp As Variant
    Dim J As Long
    Dim Arr() As Variant


    Randomize
    L = UBound(InArray) - LBound(InArray) + 1
    ReDim Arr(LBound(InArray) To UBound(InArray))
    For N = LBound(InArray) To UBound(InArray)
        Arr(N) = InArray(N)
    Next N
    For N = LBound(InArray) To UBound(InArray)
        J = CLng(((UBound(InArray) - N) * Rnd) + N)
        Temp = InArray(N)
        InArray(N) = InArray(J)
        InArray(J) = Temp
    Next N
    ShuffleArray = Arr
End Function

Sub ShuffleArrayInPlace(InArray() As Variant)
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' ShuffleArrayInPlace
' This shuffles InArray to random order, randomized in place.
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    Dim N As Long
    Dim Temp As Variant
    Dim J As Long

    Randomize
    For N = LBound(InArray) To UBound(InArray)
        J = CLng(((UBound(InArray) - N) * Rnd) + N)
        If N <> J Then
            Temp = InArray(N)
            InArray(N) = InArray(J)
            InArray(J) = Temp
        End If
    Next N
End Sub