Bill Kelly gave a nicely concise and elegant solution, so I won't bother 
giving mine.  But I wanted to ask what this is for?  :)  A game?  :)

Pistos

jotto wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out a way to randomize the letters in a word,
> essentially jumbling the spelling.
> 
> jumbling the word jumble would give: lbujme or bujlme etc...
> 
> right now i'm considering:
> 
> rand(string.length) to get a random index of a letter in the string,
> then making a new string one character at a time. but this obviously
> doesn't take into account using the letters only once.
> 
> any ideas?


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