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Re: Long text file manipulation--BIGGER QUESTION
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Re: Long text file manipulation--BIGGER QUESTION


  • Subject: Re: Long text file manipulation--BIGGER QUESTION
  • From: Bryan Harris <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 14:56:08 -0500

>> Perhaps the question I should be asking then is a bit more complex. ...
>
> It sounds like the question boils down to "how do I get all the lines of a
> file in random order without repeating any?" Depending on what the lines look


May I be so bold? If your file is less than 65000 lines or so, you could
just load the file into Excel (col A), then put "=rand()" into every
corresponding line of col B, and sort by col B, delete col B, then export
back to text.

Simple line randomization w/o scripts.

- B


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 >Re: Long text file manipulation--BIGGER QUESTION (From: Chris Nebel <email@hidden>)

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