in reply to Randomizing an array

A quick glance at the FAQs provides:

use List::Util 'shuffle'; @shuffled = shuffle(@list);
...and...
sub fisher_yates_shuffle { my $deck = shift; # $deck is a reference to an array my $i = @$deck; while ($i--) { my $j = int rand ($i+1); @$deck[$i,$j] = @$deck[$j,$i]; } } # shuffle my mpeg collection # my @mpeg = <audio/*/*.mp3>; fisher_yates_shuffle( \@mpeg ); # randomize @mpeg in place print @mpeg;