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> Subject: Randomizing lines in a file: problems with hashes
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> 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 i
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> 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
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>
> I need to take a file of alphabetized lines (
Change
%randomarray = ($key => $_);
to
$randomarray{$key} = $_;
-David
On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 11:05, KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote:
> 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 tim
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 eac
