Re^2: Random array sorting

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Re^3: Random array sorting by merlyn (Sage) on Dec 05, 2007 at 18:31 UTC
That's been shown time and time again to not be a "fair" shuffle, and in earlier Perl versions, would actually lose data or even core-dump. Bad. And yeah, I tried it in order to find that out. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]
Re^3: Random array sorting by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 05, 2007 at 18:41 UTC
Ignoring that it doesn't work, I don't see how `print $_, "\n" foreach (sort {int(rand(3))-1} @array);` [download] is easier than `print $_, "\n" foreach shuffle @array;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]