note 8996 deleted from function.shuffle by aidan

From: Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 22:34:43 +0000
Subject: note 8996 deleted from function.shuffle by aidan
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Note Submitter: hagen at von-eitzen dot de ---- Yes, shuffle doesn't shuffle well: I made some experiments and found that shuffling a 10 row array would leave the first element in place about three times more often than bringing the last element to the front! But I'd suppose that the following is somewhat faster (don't forget to srand, of course!): function my_shuffle(&$array) { for ($j=count($array)-1; $j>0; $j--) { if (($i = rand(0,$j))<$j) {$swp=$array[$i]; $array[$i]=$array[$j]; $array[$j]=$swp;} } }

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