Thank you, David, for giving me a fish, and Bob, for teaching me to fish. It works like a charm.
Thanks, again. -Kevin Zembower >>> Bob Showalter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/19/01 11:21AM >>> > -----Original Message----- > From: KEVIN ZEMBOWER [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 11:06 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Randomizing lines in a file: problems with hashes > > > I need to take a file of alphabetized lines (one line per record) and > randomize it. I thought one way of doing this was to read in the file, > one line at a time, generate a random number and store the line in a > hash with the random number as the key. After all the lines were read > in, I'd output each line, sorted by the key (the random > number). > > ... > > Is there an easier/faster/better way of doing this that a perl guru > would use? There's a FAQ entry related to this: perldoc -q 'How do I shuffle an array randomly?' -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
