Scrmable (Ruby does line-noise, too!)
17 Sep, 2003
From languagehat.com (and many others):
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
Various scrambler scripts are now doing the rounds (the most high-profile being jwz's). But the best implementation I've seen is this little beauty, spotted on the ruby-talk list:
ruby -pe 'gsub!(/\B\w+\B/){$&.split(//).sort_by{rand}.join}'
Note the sort_by{rand} trick; it takes the internal letters of
the word and sorts them using a Schwartzian
Transform, with a
random number as the sort-key. Asoemwe.
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