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Re: Simulating Drawing From A Bag

by Bilbo (Pilgrim)
on Jun 12, 2003 at 09:12 UTC ( [id://265304]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Simulating Drawing From A Bag

Why not just 

while (@my_bag > 0) {
        $x = int(rand(@my_bag));
        print splice(@my_bag, $x, 1) . "\n";
}

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This avoids the problem that Skeeve has pointed out.

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