Hi,
I just made a little script to randomly select a variable from a file.
The variable is given as a return, so you can use it like this:
x = pick_var("my_variables.txt");
The variable can be of any sign and can have decimals.

Maybe someone finds it useful.

Code:

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var_nsave pickhandle;

function pick_var(file)
{
	var i;
	var number_to_pick;
	var numbers_in_file = 1;
	
	pickhandle = file_open_read(file);
	while(1)
	{
		temp = file_var_read(pickhandle);
		if(temp != 0)
		{
			numbers_in_file += 1;
		}
		else
		{
			break;
		}
	}
	file_close(pickhandle);
	randomize();
	number_to_pick = clamp(int(random(numbers_in_file)), 1, numbers_in_file);
	pickhandle = file_open_read(file);
	while(i < number_to_pick)
	{
		temp = file_var_read(pickhandle);
		i += 1;
	}
	return(temp);
}

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