Here’s my solution. Finally, something that even a newb like me can
write a solution for (albeit, maybe not a great one). My solution
feels very perl-ish to me, but, hey, it seems to work with the limited
testing I’ve given it.
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– AL –
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
if ! ARGV[0]
puts “Usage: munge.rb filename.txt”
else
infile = File.open(ARGV[0])
infile.map do |line|
line.split.map do |word|
if word =~ /\W$/
punctuation = word[-1…-1]
word.chop!
else
punctuation = “”
end
if word.length > 3
inner = word[1…-1]
word = word[0…0] + inner.split(//).sort_by {rand}.join(’’) +
word[-1…-1] + punctuation
end
print word + " "
end
puts
end
end