Program to write randomly.

[toolman]

Is there a script that will pull sentences from a file/db and randomly assemble them on a page?

[rcjordan]

Just to clarify, all of the sentences each time?

[toolman]

Say I write a bunch of good sentences about...oh...let's say real estate in Kansas. The I assemble each sentence on it's own delimited little line.

Is there a script that will take entire sentences and randomly write them to a page?

[rcjordan]

Say you could somehow think up 10 things to say about real estate in Kansas, do you want to write all 10 of them each time in random order, or 1 of the 10 picked from the db at random?

[toolman]

Let's say I thought of 200 different sentences and I could set a limit for the file to be written to include a certain number of those sentences randomly selected. So I would end up with a page with 20 randomly selected sentences from the 200.

This make any sense?

[rcjordan]

Don't get excited, I don't know of such a script (well, maybe an idea), but we may as well get the last part down.

>This make any sense?
>
Yes.

Q:
Are these 20 sentences to be created dynamically and rotated so that each time a visitor goes through the page he sees a different set of 20?

[toolman]

Nope. Just need fodder for the cannon. It needs to write me a "unique page" just once before I ship it off into "Battlezone SEO" to wrestle algorithms and spiders all the days of its life.

[littleman]

Hey Tool,
It is very easy to do such a thing in perl. But you may want to read this thread [webmasterworld.com] before you decide to do it.

[rcjordan]

Seems to me you could do this in something like Excel if there's a way to randomize the sort. Just cut & paste a block of 20 lines.

[rcjordan]

Went looking for the random story generator and stumbled across two scripts that seem likely prospects for use as-is or modified.
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Random sentence generator, really a random paragraph generator. Seems it would make a great keyword scrambler.

[kincsem.btf.hu...]
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A CGI random quiz generator. Teacher/admin may add to a pool of questions and multiple-choice/true-false answers with the admin interface. Through the use of cookies, students are randomly given a predetermined number of questions. Students won't get the same question more than once, and each student will see the questions in a different order.

[linguistic-funland.com...]

[littleman]

The problem with this is the double spider dipping and then page analyzing. If the page is off by X% on returning spider visits you could get flagged. You could use such a utility and then save the paragraphs for use on your pages, that would be a lot safer.

[toolman]

Sorry LM..thats what I was thinking all along. Static. I wonder where I can use such "gibberized" pages though?

[littleman]

You could cloak them.
hehe

[Bolotomus]

Try this. Note that it might give duplicate lines in its output.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $textfile = "/home/me/myfile.txt"; # file with words/sentences, one per line
my $howmany = 20; # how many random picks to display

open (FILE,$textfile) ¦¦ die $!;
my(@lines)=<FILE>;
close FILE;

for (1..$howmany) { print $lines[int(rand()*scalar(@lines))] }