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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: How to shuffle/jumble letters of a given word?
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 09:05:50 +0100
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"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));
      end loop;
      Sort (Keyed);