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Old 12-08-2015
Question Randomized shuffle words on each line
Hi Folks,

I have a text file with a thousand lines consisting of words or a group of words separated by commas.

I would like to randomize / shuffle the words on each line.

Eg; file.txt
Code:
Linux,Open,Free,Awesome,Best Things in Life,The Greatest
Laptop,PC,Tablet,Home Computers,Digital
Bash,Tutorial,Shell,Terminal,Code,Command Line


Desired output ( randomized any order ):
Code:
Best Things in Life,Awesome,The Greatest,Free,Linux,Open
PC,Home Computers,Tablet,Digital,Laptop
Tutorial,Shell,Bash,Command Line,Code,Terminal


Any ideas on how to accomplish this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your help Smilie
Last edited by martinsmith; 12-08-2015 at 10:42 PM..
# 2  
Old 12-08-2015
Maybe something like this:

Code:
#!/usr/bin/env perl
# shuffler.pl

use strict;
use warnings;

use List::Util qw(shuffle);

while(<>) {
    chomp;
    my @line = split ",";
    @line = shuffle @line;
    print join(",", @line), "\n";
}

Save as shuffler.pl
Run as perl shuffler.pl martinsmith.file

---------- Post updated at 07:52 PM ---------- Previous update was at 07:43 PM ----------

If you need it as a one-liner.
Code:
perl -MList::Util=shuffle -nlaF"," -e 'print join ",", (shuffle @F)' martinsmith.file

This User Gave Thanks to Aia For This Post:
martinsmith
# 3  
Old 12-09-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by Aia
Maybe something like this:

Code:
#!/usr/bin/env perl
# shuffler.pl

use strict;
use warnings;

use List::Util qw(shuffle);

while(<>) {
    chomp;
    my @line = split ",";
    @line = shuffle @line;
    print join(",", @line), "\n";
}

Save as shuffler.pl
Run as perl shuffler.pl martinsmith.file

---------- Post updated at 07:52 PM ---------- Previous update was at 07:43 PM ----------

If you need it as a one-liner.
Code:
perl -MList::Util=shuffle -nlaF"," -e 'print join ",", (shuffle @F)' martinsmith.file

Wow totally awesome! It does exactly what i needed.

Thanks so much for your help. Appreciated tremendously! Smilie
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