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WordListMod-RandomSeekPick-0.001
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NAME

WordListMod::RandomSeekPick - Provide a pick() implementation that random-seeks DATA

VERSION

This document describes version 0.001 of WordListMod::RandomSeekPick (from Perl distribution WordListMod-RandomSeekPick), released on 2020-05-22.

SYNOPSIS

use WordListMod qw(get_mod_wordlist);
my $wl = get_mod_wordlist("EN::Enable", "RandomSeekPick");
say for $wl->pick(3);

DESCRIPTION

The default WordList's pick() performs a scan on the whole word list once while collecting random items. This role provides an alternative implementation that random-seeks on DATA, discard the line fragment, then get the next line. This algorithm does not provide uniformly random picking, but for many cases it should be random enough. It is faster if you have a huge word list and just want to pick one or a few items.

Note: since this role's pick() operates on the DATA filehandle directly instead of using each_word(), it cannot be used on dynamic wordlists.

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/WordListMod-RandomSeekPick.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-WordListMod-RandomSeekPick.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=WordListMod-RandomSeekPick

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

SEE ALSO

File::RandomLine provides a similar algorithm.

WordListMod, WordList xs

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2020 by perlancar@cpan.org.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.