He is creating a throttle or valve with the grep function, allowing only a certain stochastic percentage of @input applicants through the valve into the accepted @subset.

I know. merlyn's Original post had my @subset = rand(75) <= 100, @input;, which wasn't using grep at all. Apparently he's updated the node.

I don't include citations for you to ignore them; they're there to read :)

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