My dictionary (/usr/share/dict/words) only has 96274 words :)
But anyway, here is my go at this - I'm not sure how efficient (or otherwise) it is - but it seems to work :)
Update 1: blah - I just realised that it doesn't work at all - the shuffle isn't doing anything. I'll update it again later when I get it working.
Update 2: - okay, working now :) (I think)
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use List::Util qw(shuffle);
my $dict = '/usr/share/dict/words';
open DICT, "<", $dict or die "Cannot open $dict:$!\n";
my %words;
WORD:
while (my $word = <DICT>) {
chomp $word;
my ($letter) = $word =~ /^(\w)/;
next WORD if !$letter;
push @{$words{$letter}}, $word;
}
close DICT;
foreach my $letter (sort keys %words) {
@{$words{$letter}} = shuffle(@{$words{$letter}});
for my $number (1 .. 100) {
print "$words{$letter}[$number]\n";
}
}
Cheers,
Darren :)
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