From: dblack@...
Date: 2007-02-11T21:56:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Randomly Sorting Strings

Hi --

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Stefan Rusterholz wrote:

> Sharon Phillips wrote:
>> try
>>
>> example= %w[one two three cat dog cow table]
>> puts example[rand(example.size)]
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dave
>
> Another example would be:
>
> example= %w[one two three cat dog cow table].sort_by { rand }
> example.each { |string|
>  puts string
> }

You can replace the last three lines with:

   puts example

:-)


David

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