Second pass at it - Now for something completely different...

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; # https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=11154597 use warnings; use List::AllUtils qw( first shuffle ); my @in = shuffle <DATA>; my @out = shift @in; LOOP: while( @in ) { for my $in ( 0 .. $#in ) { if( $in[$in] ne $out[0] ) # put at start { unshift @out, splice @in, $in, 1; next LOOP; } elsif( $in[$in] ne $out[-1] ) # put at end { push @out, splice @in, $in, 1; next LOOP; } else # put in first middle place it fits { if( my $pick = first { $out[$_ - 1] ne $in[$in] and $out[$_] ne $in[$in] } 1 .. $#out + ) { splice @out, $pick, 0, splice @in, $in, 1; next LOOP; } } } die "FAILED\nin\n @in\nout\n @out"; } print @out; __DATA__ Line 1 Line 2 Line 3 Line 3 Line 3 Line 4 Line 8

BTW: It only found 240 different orders in 1e7 runs.


In reply to Re: Algorithm RFC: fast (pseudo-)random shuffle with no repetition by tybalt89
in thread Algorithm RFC: fast (pseudo-)random shuffle with no repetition by Anonymous Monk

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