How To Use The Power Apps RANDBETWEEN Function

How To Use The Power Apps RANDBETWEEN Function Summary The Power Apps RANDBETWEEN function generates a random whole number within a specific range. For examp...

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Imported reference from Matthew Devaney's blog for learning purposes. Original: https://www.matthewdevaney.com/the-complete-power-apps-functions-list/how-to-use-the-power-apps-randbetween-function/. Author: Matthew Devaney.

How To Use The Power Apps RANDBETWEEN Function Summary

The Power Apps RANDBETWEEN function generates a random whole number within a specific range. For example, we could ask for a random number between 1 and 10. Syntax #1 RandBetween (Bottom, Top) Arguments Name Required? Description Bottom Yes

A whole number that is the lowest number in the range Top Yes

A whole number that is the highest number in the range Examples

Suppose we want to generate a random number between 1 and 10. We could write the following Power Apps RANDBETWEEN function. RandBetween(1, 10)

The result is a random number between 1 and 10. Each time the function is used it returns a different result. The 1st time I call the RANDBETWEEN function the result could be 3. Then the 2nd time I use RANDBETWEEN the result could be 7. The 3rd time I use the RANDBETWEEN function the result could be 1. 3 7 1

A challenge with the RANDBETWEEN function is the result always changes. If we wanted to keep the number generated by RANDBETWEEN for later we could store the result inside a variable.

Set (varRandomNumber, RandBetween( 1 , 10 )) Code language: JavaScript ( javascript ) Did You Enjoy This Article? 😺

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