Re: Array Shuffle

List::Util's shuffle is good, but it's totally random, so it doesn't guarantee anything about the position of the shuffled elements. A brute-force solution would be to shuffle repeatedly until you end up with a satisfactory order, but that really sucks.

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Re^2: Array Shuffle by northwind (Hermit) on Feb 28, 2006 at 13:13 UTC
Said brute-force solution would fall in the category of bogoshuffle... `:P`	[reply]
Re^3: Array Shuffle by QM (Parson) on Feb 28, 2006 at 18:21 UTC
Reading the whole WP entry, you might try a bozo-shuffle -- if it's not shuffled, swap the current item for an item later in the list, then back up 1 position (as the just swapped in item might sort before the previous item). (This seems to devolve into a bubblesort in reverse, well, sorta.) -QM -- Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of	[reply]