use strict ; use warnings ; my $string = "This is a not so random string" ; my $randomized ; { my @chars = $string =~ /./g ; my %randindex ; for (my $i = 0 ; $i <= $#chars ; $i++) { $randindex{rand()} = $i ; } $randomized = join "",map $chars[$randindex{$_}], sort keys %randindex ; } print "$randomized\n" ;