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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting randomly shuffle two text files the same way Post 302551842 by adrunknarwhal on Wednesday 31st of August 2011 08:39:15 PM
Old 08-31-2011
Thank you for the help. I was looking at the paste command while I was waiting for a response. I was close to figuring it out but I was having trouble separating the lines after I shuffled them. Thanks again.
 

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ARRAY_RAND(3)								 1							     ARRAY_RAND(3)

array_rand - Pick one or more random entries out of an array

SYNOPSIS
mixed array_rand (array $array, [int $num = 1]) DESCRIPTION
Picks one or more random entries out of an array, and returns the key (or keys) of the random entries. PARAMETERS
o $array - The input array. o $num - Specifies how many entries should be picked. RETURN VALUES
When picking only one entry, array_rand(3) returns the key for a random entry. Otherwise, an array of keys for the random entries is returned. This is done so that random keys can be picked from the array as well as random values. Trying to pick more elements than there are in the array will result in an E_WARNING level error, and NULL will be returned. CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ |5.2.10 | | | | | | | The resulting array of keys is no longer shuf- | | | fled. | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ EXAMPLES
Example #1 array_rand(3) example <?php $input = array("Neo", "Morpheus", "Trinity", "Cypher", "Tank"); $rand_keys = array_rand($input, 2); echo $input[$rand_keys[0]] . " "; echo $input[$rand_keys[1]] . " "; ?> SEE ALSO
shuffle(3). PHP Documentation Group ARRAY_RAND(3)
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