set the random seed in julia generator of random numbers

Question

I would like to do a couple of checkings using the random generator for normal distributed numbers in julia. So what I would like is to obtain the same sequence of pseudo-random numbers.

Actually, I do random matrices, so I would like that both of my programs generate:

A = randn(dim,dim)                                                                                                                                                                            H = (A + A')/sqrt(2) 

the same H-matrix

Answer 1

Updated answer, for Julia 0.7 onwards.

import Random Random.seed!(1234) dim = 5 A = randn(dim,dim) H = (A + A')/sqrt(2) 

Previous answer, for Julia 0.6 and earlier.

You are looking for the srand function, e.g.

srand(1234) dim = 5 A = randn(dim,dim) H = (A + A')/sqrt(2) 

Will always produce the same results.