in reply to Re: random index in array - no duplicates
in thread random index in array - no duplicates

The answer is still shuffle. Your problem can be broken down in two parts: (1) constructing a list of random labels; (2) assembling the required data structure. Shuffle solves the first part, tutorials (perldsc, perllol) for working with structured data may help you with the latter.

use List::Util qw( shuffle ); my @data = map { [$_, undef] } qw( v1 v2 v3 v4 v5 ); my @shuf = shuffle 0..$#data; my @tab = map { [$data[$_][0], $shuf[$_]] } 0..$#data; use Data::Dumper; print Data::Dumper->Dump([\@data, \@tab], [qw(*data *tab)]);

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