But it does.  the \B only matches a non-word boundary, so the match
can't include the first and last letter.  Secondly, if the word is too
short, it just fails to match at all.

-Kurt

On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 07:35:11AM +0900, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, 4:33:23 AM, Kurt wrote:
> 
> > Try
> 
> > -pe 'gsub!(/\B\w+\B/){$&.split(//).sort_by{rand}.join}
> 
> > Shorter (and even cleaner too!)
> 
> > -Kurt
> 
> That looks to me like it will not preserve the first and last letter
> in each word, which is a requirement.
> 
> Gavin
> 
> 
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