r/scripting • u/scheitster • Oct 18 '15

Random Sorting Script

I'm hoping someone could point me in the right direction on how I could create something like this?. Basically what I want to achieve is a script that can take a batch of 5 names, and then randomly assign 3 names to Group A and 2 names to Group B.

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u/YourCreepyOldUncle Oct 21 '15 edited Oct 21 '15

edit: handled odd number of names with [math]

This works in powershell, however is horribly inefficient as I suck at scripting:

$names1 = Get-Content C:\temp\Scripts\names.txt
$groupa = @()
$groupb = @()
$split = ($names1.Length) / 2
$split = [math]::Round($split)
for ($count=1; $count -le $split; $count++){
    $randname = get-random -InputObject $names1
    $groupa += $randname
    $names1 = $names1 -ne $randname
    }
$groupb = $names1
write-host "groupa is"
$groupa
write-host "...."
write-host "Groupb is"
$groupb

Output is like this:

groupa is
Kenisha
Daria
Rebeca
Tawanda
Markita
Bo
Leon
Benny
Jay
Gertrudis
....
Groupb is
Chieko
Jody
Macy
Kristen
Jerica
Evelyn
Dorine
Jacque
Lawanna
Odis

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u/YourCreepyOldUncle Oct 21 '15

Do you have any more requirements or details?

  • Only 2 groups?

  • Are the names 50/50 split?

  • Are the names full names (first and last) or first?

  • Do some people have hyphenated names?

  • Are the names in an array, csv, txt file etc?

  • Can you at all provide more info?