From: Ross Bamford <rossrt@...>
Date: 2006-04-23T01:08:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Text Munger (#76)

On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 00:56 +0900, Ray Baxter wrote:
> Ross Bamford wrote:
> 
> > This is a better example:
> > 
> > [rosco@jukebox text-munger-76]$ ./munger.rb test2.txt
> > La viiosn euro辿nepne str辿giatque
> > [rosco@jukebox text-munger-76]$ ./munger.rb test2.txt
> > La vioisn eurpe辿none strga辿itque
> > [rosco@jukebox text-munger-76]$ ./munger.rb test2.txt
> > La vioisn eurenop辿ne strtagi辿que
> > [rosco@jukebox text-munger-76]$ ./munger.rb test2.txt
> > La vision eurpe辿onne str辿igatque
> > [rosco@jukebox text-munger-76]$ ./munger.rb test2.txt
> > La vision eur辿onpene strgt辿iaque
> > [rosco@jukebox text-munger-76]$ ./munger.rb test2.txt
> > La visoin eure辿onpne striagt辿que
> > 
> > (from La vision europ辿enne strat辿gique)
> > 
> 
> The pattern, "eu??????ne str?????que" is constant in your results.
> 

Well, that's a question of more random, or more readable. A good point
was raised about longer words becoming unrecognisable when just randomly
scrambled...

OTOH If we're doing random scrambling, leaving only first and last
letter I think I can get back down to two lines...

What's everyone else doing?

-- 
Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.REMOVE.co.uk