hello. rather new to perl and i am back for more wisdom. i would like to return a random value from my hash UNLESS that random value eq 'exit' this below code does the trick - however i think it could be done in a more simplistic fashion and be more dynamic... 
sub get_random_room {
    my $self = shift;
    my $random_room = '';

    if ( defined $self->{exits} ) {
            $random_room = $self->{exits}{ ( keys %{$self->{exits}} ) 
+[ rand keys %{$self->{exits}} ] };
            
        #no random exiting
        if ($random_room eq 'exit') {
            $random_room  = 'hallway';
        }

        return $random_room;
    }    
}

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this below code does not work - while i can execute my program - nothing is getting returned 
sub get_random_room {
    my $self = shift;
    my $random_room = '';

    if ( defined $self->{exits} ) {
            $random_room = $self->{exits}{ ( keys %{$self->{exits}} ) 
+[ rand keys %{$self->{exits}} ] } unless ('exit');
        
       
        return $random_room;
    }    
}

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thanks.

In reply to Random Values from Hash with UNLESS statement by cmikel

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