From: "Kurt M. Dresner" <kdresner@...>
Date: 2003-09-17T03:33:23+09:00
Subject: Re: scrambler one-liner

Try

-pe 'gsub!(/\B\w+\B/){$&.split(//).sort_by{rand}.join}

Shorter (and even cleaner too!)

-Kurt



On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 03:20:53AM +0900, Xavier Noria wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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