#!/usr/bin/env perl -l use strict; use warnings; use open OUT => qw{:encoding(utf8) :std}; # From: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0400.pdf # Cyrillic: 0400 - 04FF # Basic Russian alphabet: 0410 - 044F my @sample_chars = map { chr } hex '0410' .. hex '044F'; print 'Total characters for random selection: ', 0+@sample_chars; my $string; for (0 .. 50) { for (1 .. 5 + rand 5) { $string .= $sample_chars[rand @sample_chars]; } $string .= ' '; } print 'One line:'; print $string; (my $multiline_string = $string) =~ s/(.{50,80})(\s+)/$1\n/g; print 'Many lines:'; printf '%10s', $_ for 1 .. 8; print ''; print '1234567890' x 8; print $multiline_string