Randomize character positions in string

[gsb]

I would like to randomly reorder the characters in a string.
I wrote a function breaking the string into arrays,
assigning Rangoon numbers and reassembling the string.

Is there an easier way?

Thanks,

gsb

[Alejandro Pedraza]

Re: Randomize character positions in string

What about this?

for ($i=0;$i<strlen ($string);$i++) {
$randPos=rand(0 ,strlen($string )-1);
$temp=$string[$i];
$string[$i]=$string[$randPos];
$string[$randPos]=$temp;
}



"gsb" <gsb@QWest.ne t> wrote in message news:<Q0NDb.45$ kH5.100762@news .uswest.net>...[color=blue]
> I would like to randomly reorder the characters in a string.
> I wrote a function breaking the string into arrays,
> assigning Rangoon numbers and reassembling the string.
>
> Is there an easier way?
>
> Thanks,
>
> gsb[/color]

[Nikolai Chuvakhin]

Re: Randomize character positions in string

"gsb" <gsb@QWest.ne t> wrote in message
news:<Q0NDb.45$ kH5.100762@news .uswest.net>...[color=blue]
>
> I would like to randomly reorder the characters in a string.
> I wrote a function breaking the string into arrays,
> assigning Rangoon numbers and reassembling the string.
>
> Is there an easier way?[/color]

http://www.php.net/str_shuffle

Cheers,
NC

[Rahul Anand]

Re: Randomize character positions in string

If you are using PHP ver >= 4.3.0

try using:
$str = "This is a test string";
$str = str_shuffle($st r)

If your PHP ver < 4.3.0

$str = "This is a test string";
$sarray = preg_split('//', $str);
unset($sarray[count($sarray)-1],$sarray[0]);
srand((float)mi crotime()*10000 00);
shuffle($sarray );
$str = implode("",$sar ray);

hope it will help.

-- Rahul

"gsb" <gsb@QWest.ne t> wrote in message news:<Q0NDb.45$ kH5.100762@news .uswest.net>...[color=blue]
> I would like to randomly reorder the characters in a string.
> I wrote a function breaking the string into arrays,
> assigning Rangoon numbers and reassembling the string.
>
> Is there an easier way?
>
> Thanks,
>
> gsb[/color]