Re: How to shuffle/jumble letters of a given word?

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 09:05:50 +0100, Simon Wright wrote:

> "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> writes:
> 
>> On 06/28/2015 02:07 PM, Simon Wright wrote:
>>> 
>>> Then, given a String, create an Elements array with each Key a new
>>> random number and each Ch the corresponding character in the String;
>>> sort it (which, since the Keys were random, is effectively a shuffle);
>>> and return a String formed of the Chs in their new order.
>>
>> You could also just sort the String.
> 
> I don't see how this would work?
> 
> Though I see I made myself less than clear. At the risk of solving even
> more of the OP's problem for her than I already have,
> 
>       Keyed : Elements (Str'Range);
>    begin
>       for J in Str'Range loop
>          Keyed (J) := (Ada.Numerics.Float_Random.Random (Gen), Str (J));

It should be non-repeating random numbers in this case, provided
"shuffling" meant permutation.

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