Hi,
br> I have a task where i'm supposed to send a certain percentage of the users to one location, and the rest to another location.

I have an idea where I want to use the session key and modulus, but I don't know how to implement it. Some pseudocode:

# 1. Convert every character to a number using ord?

# 2. ???

# 3. use modulus 100 on the converted string to get 1 or 0

if (($converted_string % 100) < $percentage)
{
    $location = "new location";
}
else
{
    $location = "old location";
}

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As you can see I'm quite clueless on this, but it's more of a mathematical problem than a code problem. I know that I need to do some calculations on the string before I can use modulus on it, but how?

In reply to Send x% of the users to A, the rest to B by DreamT

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