Anyone know of a program that will take a text file and randomize the lines?

[Jace]

I have a huge list of urls, and I need them to be in random order...I have text pad, but that only sorts by letter and shit, and I need everything to randomize

is randomize even a word?

[Quickdraw]

If you can use PHP, here is quick dirty way to do it

PHP Code:

<?php
$file = file("urls.txt");

// Strips dupes if you need, comment out if you do not need this
$temp = array_unique($file);

//Shuffles the deck or randomizes :)
shuffle($temp);
//Prints each line 
foreach($temp as $value)
   {
   echo $value;
   }
exit;
?>

[BIGTYMER]

Originally Posted by Quickdraw

If you can use PHP, here is quick dirty way to do it

PHP Code:

<?php
$file = file("urls.txt");

// Strips dupes if you need, comment out if you do not need this
$temp = array_unique($file);

//Shuffles the deck or randomizes :)
shuffle($temp);
//Prints each line 
foreach($temp as $value)
   {
   echo $value;
   }
exit;
?>

Cool little script. Thanks!

[StickyGreen]

gracias...

[Jace]

Originally Posted by Quickdraw

If you can use PHP, here is quick dirty way to do it

PHP Code:

<?php
$file = file("urls.txt");

// Strips dupes if you need, comment out if you do not need this
$temp = array_unique($file);

//Shuffles the deck or randomizes :)
shuffle($temp);
//Prints each line 
foreach($temp as $value)
   {
   echo $value;
   }
exit;
?>

i did that and it output everything as one single line...LOL

worked great from what I can tell, but here is what it did


http://www.constantbabes.com/tmp/urls.php

[mikeyddddd]

Put a <br> on each line or change the script

From this:

echo $value;

to this:

echo "<br>$value";

or echo "$value<br>";

[Quickdraw]

Originally Posted by Jace

i did that and it output everything as one single line...LOL

worked great from what I can tell, but here is what it did


http://www.constantbabes.com/tmp/urls.php

oh sorry--
You can save that page as a text file, or view source and it will be line by line

[Jace]

Originally Posted by mikeyddddd

Put a <br> on each line or change the script

From this:

echo $value;

to this:

echo "<br>$value";

or echo "$value<br>";

PERFECT!

[Jace]

Originally Posted by Quickdraw

oh sorry--
You can save that page as a text file, or view source and it will be line by line

I just added a BR to the end of each line and it worked fine

didn't think of saving it

regardless, it worked perfect

[Quickdraw]

Cool, glad it did what you needed.
And yes, randomizes is a real word.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/randomize

[potter]

You can also use open office. Paste all the items into a spreadsheet, then paste the random number char code into the column next to the urls, then sort by numbered column, copy the column with the urls and you're done.