# Re: rand random. You've got to be kidding

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-rand-random-youve-got-to-be-kidding/77562>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 28, 2006, 8:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-rand-random-youve-got-to-be-kidding/77562 "2006-11-28T20:34:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 28, 2006, 8:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-rand-random-youve-got-to-be-kidding/77562/1 "2006-11-28T20:34:23Z")

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I want to think everyone for their replies.As usual, it was an operator  
error. I was using:  
file.sort{rand}  
instead of  
file.sort\_by{rand}.  
It’s strange how your eye passes over errors like this and fails to see  
it.  
I once had a \* instead of a + in a routine. I thought I was never going  
to  
find the problem.

Charles G. – Phoenix, AZ Where you can bake the chill out of your  
bones.