Re: Is there a quick and easy way to indroduce random deletions

2003-03-13 Thread Aimal Pashtoonmal
Thanks all. The item below works. I did not know one could use rand in that way. cheers. aim. = Rob Dixon wrote: > Aimal Pashtoonmal wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Does anyone know how I can go about introducing a single random > > deletion. I have fil

Re: Is there a quick and easy way to indroduce random deletions

2003-03-13 Thread Rob Dixon
Aimal Pashtoonmal wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know how I can go about introducing a single random > deletion. I have file containing blocks of alphabet each block with a > uniq tag. I have passed this into a hash where the tags are the keys > and values are the blocks. Is there a quick and easy w

Re: Is there a quick and easy way to indroduce random deletions

2003-03-13 Thread John W. Krahn
Aimal Pashtoonmal wrote: > > Hi, Hello, > Does anyone know how I can go about introducing a single random > deletion. I have file containing blocks of alphabet each block with a > uniq tag. I have passed this into a hash where the tags are the keys > and values are the blocks. Is there a quick

RE: Is there a quick and easy way to indroduce random deletions

2003-03-13 Thread Aimal Pashtoonmal
Hi, Does anyone know how I can go about introducing a single random deletion. I have file containing blocks of alphabet each block with a uniq tag. I have passed this into a hash where the tags are the keys and values are the blocks. Is there a quick and easy way to randomly remove a single lette