Day: 09/17/2003

Mixer Remixed

/ joeygibson

After reading several threads about the text scrmabler and various implementations, I revised my Ruby version and it’s now 21 lines shorter and much more Ruby-like. It makes far less of an attempt to deal with punctuation, but I think that’s OK. This is just a lark, after all. 

  1  class Mixer  2      private  3      def randomize(str)  4          return str if str.length < 4  5  6          str =~ /B.*B/  7          first = $`  8          last = $'  9          first + ($&.split(//).sort_by {rand}.join) + last 10      end 11 12      public 13      def mix_file(filename) 14          lines = IO.readlines(filename) 15 16          mix_lines(lines) 17      end 18 19      def mix_string(str) 20          mix_lines(str.split).join(" ") 21      end 22 23      def mix_lines(lines) 24          lines.collect! do |line| 25              words = Array.new 26 27              line.split(/W/).each do |word| 28                  words << randomize(word) 29              end 30 31              words.join(" ") 32          end 33      end 34  end