To randomly re-order on-the-fly, this should do...

    my @lines = <FILE>;
    print splice( @lines, rand @lines, 1 ) while @lines;

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For arbritraty ordering (as in supplied via user input), if you can be assured of having the right number of line orderings and making sure you count from 0 not 1, then you can do an array splice ...

    @order = qw( 17 4 23 7 12 19 8 0 16 9 21 1 14
                 15 6 11 20 3 2 24 5 13 18 10 22 );
    print @lines[ @order ]

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... assuming you replaced qw() with your CGI input.

    --k.


In reply to Re: Reordering arrays by Kanji
in thread Reordering arrays by Stamp_Guy

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