Of all the wonderful responses I think this is the easiest one for me to understand and implement into my script. I do have a question or two about it and was wondering if you could help me figure them out.

  • Why is there a my $pair? I only see it being used in that one statement.
  • Why is there a @pair at the end when the previous line is giving it a value?

    Thanks for your help everyone! I've noticed most of your scripts are very similar in nature which makes it easier. I didn't know you could do a @array = keys %db, that must be a lot easier on the server instead of doing a foreach loop.

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    sulfericacid

    In reply to Re: Re: converting hash to shuffled array by sulfericacid
    in thread converting hash to shuffled array by sulfericacid

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