Need help with generating random string script

I'm trying to make an object say a random phrase on touch. I know how to make an object speak on touch. I think I need to (at the beginning) say for example:

list STRINGS=["Have a great day!","You are amazing!","Go for it!"];

How do I use llFRAND in conjuction with this? Actually, how do I use llFRAND?

SL is down for maintenance so I can't test and there is likely to be a dumb error in here, but this should work to illustrate a couple of concepts anyway. Comments below since they are kind of long and screw up the php formatting

list STRINGS=["Have a great day!","You are amazing!","Go for it!"];
integer number_of_phrases;

default
{
	state_entry()
	{
		number_of_phrases = llGetListLength(STRINGS);
	}

	touch_start(integer num_detected)
	{
		integer random_integer = llFloor(llFrand(number_of_phrases));

		llSay(0, llList2String(STRINGS,random_integer));
	}
}

A few things wrapped up together in there...

llGetListLength returns the number of elements in the list; in this example, 3.

llFrand then returns a float between 0 and 2.9999. Using llFloor on that is a trick from the wiki; what it does is round everything *down*. Doing that happens to give you a perfect distribution of random integers. As a side benefit here, we need integers starting from 0 for the next bit, so it works out rather well.

llList2String turns a list element at a certain position (index) into a string. Since the index numbers start at 0, we can just plug in the random integer from above.

Hope that helps some


edit: caught the above-mentioned dumb error, hopefully that was the only one
edit2: nope, thanks Deanna

I just typecast to integer, same result.


You missed the closing parenth for llSay after llList2String.

Thank you both for your help. It wasn't compiling at first, but I have put the missing ) in the wrong spot.

Try this

list STRINGS=["Have a great day!","You are amazing!","Go for it!"];
integer number_of_phrases;

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        number_of_phrases = llGetListLength(STRINGS);
    }

    touch_start(integer num_detected)
    {
        integer random_integer = llFloor(llFrand((float)number_of_phrases));

        llSay(0, llList2String(STRINGS,random_integer);
    }
}