my $total_count;   #The total number of items returned by the search
my $newcount = ($total_count - 1);
my $ORDER;	#If this is not the first page, this is the original random number keeping the order between pages
if (!$ORDER) { $random_num = int(rand($total_count)) + 1; }
else { $random_num = $ORDER; }
for ($z = 1; $z < $total_count; $z++) {
	my $random = $random_num;
	while ($newcount < $random) {
		$random = ($random - $newcount);
	}
	for ($a = 0; $a <= $count; $a++) {
		if ($a < $random) { push(@front,$nonrandom[$a]); 
		}
		if ($a == $random) { push(@final,$nonrandom[$a]);   
		}
		if ($a < $random) { push(@back,$nonrandom[$a]);  
		}
	}
	@nonrandom = (@back, @front);
	@back = ();
	@front = ();
	$count--;
}

push (@final,$nonrandom[$a]); 

$thispage = $pagenumber * 5;
for ($a = ($thispage - 1); a &lt; ($thispage + 4); $a++) {
	$thispageresults = $final[$a];
}