Re^2: Randomizing Big Files

Something in this way can work, I will just point that a SCALAR in Perl is not a char*, since it can have UTF8/UNICODE values. We should use vec() to ensure that the data will be exactly the same that is appended with pack(). Also vec() already does the pack trick for us:

  vec($offs , $i , 32) = $n ;
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Re^3: Randomizing Big Files by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 26, 2005 at 16:18 UTC
Yes, good points. Using vec would actually simplify the code, even. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]