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<TITLE>Random messages</TITLE>
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function randomMessage() {
return Math.round(Math.random()*9);
}
//The function randomMessage() uses the built in Math object to produce a random number between 0 and 1
//This is then multiplied by 9, in this case, to get a number between 0 and 9, or ten random messages
var message = new Array(); //Defines a new array
message[0] = "Welcome, cool and bodacious dude!" //NOTE the square brackets
message[1] = "Get lost Smeghead!"
message[2] = "Read MacUser every fortnight!"
message[3] = "Real men use JavaScript"
message[4] = "No-one get out of here alive!"
message[5] = "Mac is a way of life"
message[6] = "Random is as random does."
message[7] = "Beware of the Cyberdog!"
message[8] = "All this randomizing is making me dizzy"
message[9] = "Java - who needs it!"
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<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000">
<HR>
<FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FF0000">
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript">
document.write(message[randomMessage()]); //writes the random message
</SCRIPT>
</FONT>
<HR>
<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000">
Click <A HREF="random.html"> here</A> to reload this page for another message
</FONT>
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