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Thread: Accessing a random text file from within a folder?

  1. November 29th, 2011, 11:48 AM #1
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    Default Accessing a random text file from within a folder?

    I'm a minecraft modder, and I'm trying to make a mod that involves randomly selecting a text file from within a folder and using its contents.

    Is there any way I can do this?

    Notes: I can't know the names of the text files being randomly selected from.
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    Default Re: Accessing a random text file from within a folder?

    If you know what directory you're looking in, you can use ListFiles to get all the files in that directory, then use the Random class to randomly pick a file from that list.
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