On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 12:23:20AM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: > also sprach Steven Smolinski (on Mon, 02 Jul 2001 01:46:29PM -0400): > > That algorithm is one of the purest distillations of beauty I've ever > > seen. :-) Remember, the perlfaq is far more peer-reviewed than almost > > any other source of info. > > okay, okay. i believe you. did you give me a link for that thing, > because now i am interested.
http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perlfaq5.html ... or ... perldoc -q 'select a random line' "How do I select a random line from a file?" > still, i like the map version better simply because a permutation of > the albums is actually what i want for a random album player, is it > not? Huh? I thought you wanted one random line chosen out of several? If you want to shuffle an array, that's a different monster. Unsurprisingly, perlfaq4 also has an implementation of the Fisher-Yates shuffle to answer this question: man perlfaq4 or http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perlfaq4.html Steve -- Steven Smolinski => http://arbiter.ca/
