Word scrambling

[Garth Hill]

Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant) wrote:
> Yes, just a scramble of a small but gradually increasing list of words..
> I'd like to have them scrambled.. And then output in a string, a list of
> scrambled words.. 
>   

I'm attaching something I wrote recently in Perl.  It's fairly 
straightforward, just put the list of words at the bottom.  It's meant 
to give you a random list using the words after __DATA__.  It can have 
duplicates and doesn't have to use all the words.  But if you save that 
as RandomText.pm in a folder and run this from that folder:

$ perl -e 'use RandomText; print RandomText::random_text(10);'

> package RandomText;
> use strict;
> use base qw(Exporter);
> use Debug;
> our @EXPORT = qw(random_text);
> our $words;
> sub words {
>     return $words ||= do {
>         chomp(my (@w) = <DATA>);
>         \@w;
>     }   
> }
>
> sub random_text {
>     my $length = shift;
>     my $text = '';
>     my $words = &words;
>     for (1 .. $length) {
>         $text .= $words->[int rand(@$words)] . " ";
>     }   
>     return $text;
> }
>
> 1;
>
> __DATA__
> Abundant
> Adjo
> Advance
> Afrikaisi
> Aisha
> Aishe
> Akana
> Akhom
> Ako
> Akori
> Akori
> Akorit
> Aloli