From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-09-17T18:34:27+09:00
Subject: Re: scrambler one-liner


preserved for eternity @ http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?OneLiners

    robert


"Kurt M. Dresner" <kdresner@cs.utexas.edu> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:20030916183318.GE13330@cs.utexas.edu...
> 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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