Please Forward: Ruby Quiz Submission

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From: Aviv Nitsan <avnit7@gmail.com>
Date: April 21, 2006 2:40:25 PM CDT
To: submission@rubyquiz.com
Subject: Please Forward: Ruby Quiz Submission

Submission for Ruby Quiz #76 (Text Munger):

#!/usr/bin/ruby

class Array
  def scramble
    a = self.dup
    a2 =
    a.length.times do
      a2.push(a.slice!(rand(a.length)))
    end
    a2
  end
end

class String
  def scramble_middle
    self.gsub(/(\w+)/) do |word|
      if word.length > 2
        word.gsub(/(#{word[1..-2]})/) {$1.split(//).scramble.join('')}
      else
        word
      end
    end
  end
end

text = STDIN.gets
puts text.scramble_middle

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