How random do you want it, and what do you mean by "randomize"? I assume you want a random permutation, all permutations equally likey.
The traditional solution is something like:
for $i ($#array..0) {
my $j = rand($i);
@array[$i,$j] = @array[$j,$i];
}
This does @array swaps, and can be shown (see Knuth) that all permutations are equally likely -- assuming I haven't made any coding mistakes
This is probably the fastest randomization algorithm, although various implementations might be faster than mine.
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