random

Type: Boolean

The random property of the SortActor class specifies whether the records or fields in a file are to be sorted in a random order.

The default values for the random property are listed in the following table.

Variable Records, Variable Fields	Variable Records, Fixed Fields	Fixed Records, Variable Fields	Fixed Records, Fixed Fields
false	false	false	false

The code fragment in the following example shows the use of the random property to set the SortActor instance to sort the file randomly.

sort1.fieldNo       := 1;
sort1.startPosition := 1;
sort1.length        := 4;
sort1.random        := true;