Corpora: code for random selection of concordance lines

From: Tony Berber Sardinha (tony4@uol.com.br)
Date: Thu Mar 21 2002 - 20:05:24 MET

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    Dear list members

    I wonder if anyone has a bit of perl or java code (or unix utilities) for
    drawing an x number of lines at random from a concordance? The number of random
    lines is variable and is specified by the user. The concordance file is saved as
    text, has a little header, with each line of text followed by a (DOS) line
    break:

    N Concordance
    1207 h situations and to carry on the Preliminary marketing Plan for the
    Dutchvet portfolio, I
    1208 vet and Brasvet can work out a plan for the marketing of an
    interesting number of our
    1209 It will be very important to do an institutional marketing of Dutchvet. We
    programm his v

    I would like to ignore the first line.

    thanks very much in anticipation

    cheers
    tony.
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    Dr Tony Berber Sardinha
    LAEL, PUC/SP
    (Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
    tony4@uol.com.br
    http://lael.pucsp.br/~tony
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