Just a little something to waste (a little) cpu time with :)
It generates random sentences with nonsense words like:
A trebble pangs lall.
All the words are in a separate file, with shebangs standing for random vowels. The code should be self-explanatory.
#!/usr/bin/perl #babble @articles = ("a ", "the ", ""); @punctuation = (".", "!", "?"); open WORDFILE, ".babblewords"; #read words from file chop(@words = <WORDFILE>); #and get rid of \n @vowels = ("a", "e", "i", "o", "u"); $frase = "S V O"; #Subject, Verb and Object for ($frase) { #replace S, O and V with words and add punctuation s/S/$articles[int(rand($#articles + 1))]$words[int(rand($#words + 1))] +/g; s/O/$articles[int(rand($#articles + 1))]$words[int(rand($#words + 1))] +/g; s/V/$words[int(rand($#words + 1))]s/g; $_ .= $punctuation[int(rand $#punctuation + 1)]; #calculate number of shebangs in text and replace with random vowe +ls $number = tr/#/#/; $a = 0; eval "s/#/$vowels[int(rand($#vowels + 1))]/;" until $a++ == $number; } print STDOUT ucfirst $frase, "\n";
Here's the current .babblewords file: (I'm thinking of implementing a random word generator too)
tr#bble j#ng y#t f#t f#ng p#ng l#ll sh#ng b#th b#the b#ll c#rr gl#pe gl#t t#rb gr#t gr#l k#st wr#t j#te h#the
Have fun, and add this into your .login file ;)
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•Re: Random nonsense generator
by merlyn (Sage) on Nov 09, 2003 at 16:07 UTC | |
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Re: Random nonsense generator
by pg (Canon) on Nov 09, 2003 at 18:31 UTC | |
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Re: Random nonsense generator
by belg4mit (Prior) on Nov 10, 2003 at 05:17 UTC | |
by Dragonfly (Priest) on Nov 16, 2003 at 21:24 UTC |