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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: How to shuffle/jumble letters of a given word?
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 15:56:56 -0500
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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote in message 
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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:
>>
>>> 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.

Huh? You sort "HELLO" and get "WATER"? That's quite an amazing sort program. 
I've written programs that did stuff like that, but I don't recall ever 
claiming that I meant to do that. :-)

                                     Randy.