in reply to improving the efficiency of a script
But anyway, here is my go at this - I'm not sure how efficient (or otherwise) it is - but it seems to work :)
Update 1: blah - I just realised that it doesn't work at all - the shuffle isn't doing anything. I'll update it again later when I get it working.
Update 2: - okay, working now :) (I think)
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use List::Util qw(shuffle); my $dict = '/usr/share/dict/words'; open DICT, "<", $dict or die "Cannot open $dict:$!\n"; my %words; WORD: while (my $word = <DICT>) { chomp $word; my ($letter) = $word =~ /^(\w)/; next WORD if !$letter; push @{$words{$letter}}, $word; } close DICT; foreach my $letter (sort keys %words) { @{$words{$letter}} = shuffle(@{$words{$letter}}); for my $number (1 .. 100) { print "$words{$letter}[$number]\n"; } }
Cheers,
Darren :)
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Re^2: improving the efficiency of a script
by lima1 (Curate) on Jun 18, 2006 at 17:48 UTC |