comp.lang.ruby

Alex Young

4/30/2007 7:03:00 AM

Peter Seebach wrote:
> In message <46358854.30705@cesmail.net>, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" writes:
>> Welll ... I do this in Excel all the time -- add a column of random
>> numbers to the right of the (CSV) file I want to shuffle, sort it about
>> five times, hitting F9 before each sort to change the random numbers,
>> and then deleting the random column and saving the file. Translate that
>> to Ruby and I think you've got it.
>
> It seems expensive.

That's almost exactly what sort_by{rand} does...

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Alex