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Subject: Re: How to shuffle/jumble letters of a given word?
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On 06/29/2015 01:05 AM, Simon Wright wrote:
> "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> writes:
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>> You could also just sort the String.
> 
> I don't see how this would work?

"HELLO" sorted would become "EHLLO"; "WATER", "AERTW"; "ART", "ART". All
possible random permutations of the original word.

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