in reply to Randomise a string of letters

Really verbose and a bit machiavellic, but works:

use strict ; use warnings ; my $string = "This is a not so random string" ; my $randomized ; { my @chars = $string =~ /./g ; my %randindex ; for (my $i = 0 ; $i <= $#chars ; $i++) { $randindex{rand()} = $i ; } $randomized = join "",map $chars[$randindex{$_}], sort keys %randind +ex ; } print "$randomized\n" ;

It seems to do what you asked for:

$ for I in 1 2 3 4 5 ; do perl randomize_string.pl ; done dsg Tosnirtan sis r maton oih nomira sr s dh tiansiotoTgn s most g air dsi Tnrs anhnitoos tinradoo issaosh siTnt rmgn t n ssa hsgni tdrmosna Tiroio

Ciao!
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