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

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