----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 7:27 am Subject: Shuffling an file
> Hello, Hi, > > I am working on a playlist managment program in perl - I need a > way to > shuffle the playlist - the playlist format is very simple - one > filename on each line. perldoc -q shuffle HTH, Mark G. > > Each file name is a reletive path, i.e: > > folder1/file1.mp3 > folder2/file2.mp3 > > If possible I would like the file to be shuffled so that whenever > possible, there are no 2 files from the same folder next to each > other. > > In the origional file, pre-shuffling, the files are sorted into > folders, i.e: > > folder1/file1.mp3 > folder1/file2.mp3 > folder2/file3.mp3 > ...... > > It would be an adequate solution to just cycle through all the > folders, like: > > folder1/file1.mp3 > folder2/file1.mp3 > folder3/file1.mp3 > folder1/file2.mp3 > ....... > > Thanks very much for any help with this. > > -- > > Dave > All us base are belong to you. > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>