On Oct 9, ZHAO, BING said:
is there a single random number generator function in perl? Or do you have any idea/algorithm on how to shuffle the elements in an array?
The random number generator is rand(); its documentation is here: perldoc -f rand To shuffle an array, read: perldoc -q shuffle -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan % How can we ever be the sold short or RPI Acacia Brother #734 % the cheated, we who for every service http://www.perlmonks.org/ % have long ago been overpaid? http://princeton.pm.org/ % -- Meister Eckhart -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
