Re: random lines

[Martin F. Krafft]

also sprach Joost Kooij (on Mon, 02 Jul 2001 11:15:38PM +0200):
> perl -e 'print map {$_->[1]} sort {$a->[0]<=>$b->[0]} map {[rand,$_]} <>' file

that's perfect!

the other perl algorithm permitted did a scan through the file,
halting on a given line according to a random number. i may well be
wrong here, but doesn't that absolutely favor the entries up to in the
file since they are considered sooooo many more times?

thanks!

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