Corpora: code for random selection of concordance lines

[Tony Berber Sardinha]

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 at uol.com.br
http://lael.pucsp.br/~tony
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