How can I randomly shuffle the positions within a Mathematica table?

[natski]

Hi everyone,

Does anybody know how to randomly shuffle the positions within a table about? For example a table T = {1,2,3,4,5,6...} gets randomly shuffled to be T' = {7,3,5,1,4...} [or whatever].

I thought there might be some kind of intrinsic RandomShuffle kind of function but can't find one...

Natski

 

[jimmy1]

Use the RandomPermutation[] function. It should do the trick. (need to load the DiscreteMath package to use it)

 

[natski]

Brilliant, thank-you!