From: Alex Barrett <al.barrett@...>
Date: 2006-04-23T01:21:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Text Munger (#76)

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"text".gsub(/\B(\w{2,})\B/) { |s| s.length.times { |i| r =3D rand(s.length)=
;
s[i], s[r] =3D s[r], s[i] }; s }

It is one line, but it does have a couple of semi-colons.

On 22/04/06, Ross Bamford <rossrt@roscopeco.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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=E9nepne str=E9giatque
> > > [rosco@jukebox text-munger-76]$ ./munger.rb test2.txt
> > > La vioisn eurpe=E9none strga=E9itque
> > > [rosco@jukebox text-munger-76]$ ./munger.rb test2.txt
> > > La vioisn eurenop=E9ne strtagi=E9que
> > > [rosco@jukebox text-munger-76]$ ./munger.rb test2.txt
> > > La vision eurpe=E9onne str=E9igatque
> > > [rosco@jukebox text-munger-76]$ ./munger.rb test2.txt
> > > La vision eur=E9onpene strgt=E9iaque
> > > [rosco@jukebox text-munger-76]$ ./munger.rb test2.txt
> > > La visoin eure=E9onpne striagt=E9que
> > >
> > > (from La vision europ=E9enne strat=E9gique)
> > >
> >
> > 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
>
>
>

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