Re: [MacPerl] Random lines from a File

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 16.13 -0500 1999.03.04, Ronald J. Kimball wrote:
>But a disimprovement in that it has to read the whole file five times over!

Yep.  To fix that is an exercise left to the reader.


>This one could select the same line more than once as well.  Is that a bug
>or a feature?

Depends on what you want.  Both are reasonable.


>I can post a proof of why this solution works, if there's interest.

Sure, what the heck.

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