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Hi BrowserUk, I want to randomize the rows, i.e. the columns stay the same, can you help me? thank you

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Re^3: randomize a text file
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jul 17, 2013 at 15:44 UTC
    , can you help me?

    Depends. Post code that reads the file into an array, then maybe.


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Re^3: randomize a text file
by hdb (Monsignor) on Jul 18, 2013 at 09:04 UTC

    If you want to randomize rows only, read your file into an array of rows, apply shuffle from List::Util and print shuffled array into new file. That's all, probably just a one-liner, don't even need to chomp.