Selecting random sample from table

[mlantin]

Is there an easy way to get a random sample of N rows from a DAT table? I was assuming some sort of sort (like the random SOP sort) but there doesn't seem to be any such thing. Before I make anything too complicated, I wondered if I was missing something obvious.

Thanks!
Maria

[keithlostracco]

Could you sample a noise chop scaled to the range that you want?

[selina]

nothing super straight forward.. a reorder DAT to append an extra column, an eval DAT to seed that column with a random number, and then sort follow by select.

Selina