Really verbose and a bit machiavellic, but works:

use strict ;
use warnings ;

my $string = "This is a not so random string" ;
my $randomized ;

{
  my @chars  = $string =~ /./g ;
  my %randindex ;

  for (my $i = 0 ; $i <= $#chars ; $i++) {
    $randindex{rand()} = $i ;
  }

  $randomized = join "",map $chars[$randindex{$_}], sort keys %randind
+ex ;
}

print "$randomized\n" ;

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It seems to do what you asked for:

$ for I in 1 2 3 4 5 ; do perl randomize_string.pl ; done
dsg Tosnirtan sis  r maton oih
 nomira sr s dh tiansiotoTgn s
most g air dsi Tnrs  anhnitoos
 tinradoo issaosh  siTnt  rmgn
t n ssa hsgni tdrmosna Tiroio

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Ciao!
--bronto

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# The End, by The Beatles
END {
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}

In reply to Re: Randomise a string of letters by bronto
in thread Randomise a string of letters by Anonymous Monk

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