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Have a no duplicate option in RandomNumberGenerator

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  • August 25, 2020
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siennaatsafe
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I recently needed to use a RandomNumberGenerator in a workspace but I needed to have no duplicate values in the random numbers. In my case I was creating a Bingo Sheet but I can see how having no duplicate values would be handy for anonymizing data.

I got around this limitation by adding a duplicate filter and a loop in a custom transformer.

Has anyone else encountered this or is interested in this functionality? Please leave a comment below with your use case.

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ebygomm
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  • ebygommEvangelist
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  • August 26, 2020

I think it would be a nice addition. For the bingo card problem, I would generate the numbers and then use a random number generator to shuffle them, see here

https://community.safe.com/s/question/0D54Q000080hXIvSAM/creating-bingo-cards

*the actual workspace looks to have been lost in the migration

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