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Re: generating random filenames

by atl (Pilgrim)
on Jul 10, 2001 at 19:33 UTC ( [id://95328]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to generating random filenames

You probably meant 
... $current_length <= $length_limit; ...

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(less or equal instead of greater or equal).

Greetings

Andreas

Addendum: a walkthrough in the debugger or a print statement inside the loop helps finding such problems. :-)

Have fun ...

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Re: Re: generating random filenames
by Amoe (Friar) on Jul 10, 2001 at 19:39 UTC
    Isn't the middle argument the condition that's true to terminate the loop? ...I guess not, cuz it seems to work now.
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      Nope, just the opposite. As long as the the middle part evaluates true the loop continous.

      <irony> Never mind, at least this gave me a question I was able to answer. </irony>

      Have(ing) fun ...

      Andreas

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