Re^4: Help with sorting/randomizing?

[GrandFather]

There is a vast difference between "random" and "meets some ordering criteria". If you have a constraint on the ordering that you want to meet (if possible, it may not be possible of course) you really need to tell us what that constraint is. Telling us about the bigger picture is often useful too so long as it makes the reason for the constraint clear - I can't imagine why somewhat random ordering is important in the context of a firewall.

I'm having trouble judging your coding ability so I didn't ease up on the sample code. However you should ask about anything that doesn't make sense to you - we are about helping you learn after all, so if you understood everything your scope for learning is fairly limited!

Here is one hint: pickEm is recursive and so, effectively, is %ips.