[kw-pm] Scrambling Letters Within a Word

[Scott Elcomb]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:44 AM, patrick <patrick_8 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I saw this from a newsletter:
> http://www.gdssw.com/tools/scramble.html (It's in Python)

My Python's not very good.  For a perl version, check out
Catalyst::Plugin::Acme::Scramble.  (It's mentioned in chapter 4 of
"The Definitive Guide to Catalyst".)  Looks like it produces similar
output anyway.

http://bit.ly/1YIv3B or
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/ASHLEY/Catalyst-Plugin-Acme-Scramble-0.03/lib/Catalyst/Plugin/Acme/Scramble.pm

> I wonder if there can be a descrambler.

Not sure, but I suspect it wouldn't be possible to do accurately in a
completely automated fashion.  (At least until software is capable of
understanding context and semantics in natural languages.)  A simple
program juggling letters around and referencing lookup tables could
probably make some "educated" guesses though.

$0.02 of course.  :-)

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