Re: Re: random elements from array

BTW shuffle() subroutine is implemented in perl module List::Util. It is probably faster than your pure Perl implementation as it is written in C.

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Re: Re: Re: random elements from array - new twist by fglock (Vicar) on Nov 05, 2002 at 11:52 UTC
`use List::Util qw(shuffle); @a=qw(a b g f t h y); ($a,$b,$c) = @a[(shuffle(0..$#a))[0..2]]; print " $a $b $c ";` [download]	[reply] [d/l]