From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2003-09-17T03:20:53+09:00
Subject: Re: scrambler one-liner

On Tuesday 16 September 2003 20:07, Kurt M. Dresner wrote:

> This is hilarious, because a friend and I just had (over lunch) a
> race to see who could code it up first.  I used Ruby and he used
> Perl.  Mine worked first, but then I reworked it a bit to make it
> neater.  His was impossible to read, but I totally have to send him
> this one-liner.  Man, sort_by{rand} is so awesome!  I can't believe I
> didn't think of that!

Cool! :-) I have just written this version even shorter:

-pe 'gsub!(/(\w)(\w+)(?=\w)/){$1+$2.split(//).sort_by{rand}.to_s}'

-- fxn