Simple scripting help

[Erwin van der Zwart]

Well it's by far not a simple script that is why i took the challenge as i like that (:

Create your ASCII objects and add the tag "Scramble" to it and run this script to scramble all the object values without any duplicates 

Code:

-- get objects to scramble by tag scrambled = grp.tag('Scramble') -- set randomseed math.randomseed(os.time()) -- function to scramble strings function scramble(str)   local chars = {}   for char in str:gmatch'.[\128-\191]*' do     table.insert(chars, {char = char, rnd = math.random()})   end   table.sort(chars, function(a, b) return a.rnd < b.rnd end)   for i, v in ipairs(chars) do     chars[i] = v.char   end   return table.concat(chars) end -- create new values table with unique values newvalues = {} for i, object in ipairs(scrambled) do   -- Set max retries for unique values to avoid script lockout   max_retry = 100   -- Goto marker when value is already in the table or the same as old value   ::retry::   if #newvalues < 1 then     value = scramble(object.value)     if value == object.value then       max_retry = max_retry - 1       if max_retry < 1 then         return       else       goto retry       end     end   table.insert(newvalues, {address = object.address, value = value})   else     value = scramble(object.value)     if value == object.value then       max_retry = max_retry - 1       if max_retry < 1 then         return       else         goto retry       end     end     for j, newvalue in ipairs(newvalues) do       if value == newvalue.value then         max_retry = max_retry - 1         if max_retry < 1 then           return         else           goto retry         end       end     end     table.insert(newvalues, {address = object.address, value = value})   end end --Check if tables are same lenght if #newvalues == #scrambled then -- update objects for _, object in ipairs(newvalues) do    grp.checkupdate(object.address, object.value) end end

Still curious to your use case (:

BR,

Erwin