I am "trying" to get this to work, but I can't seem to find an answer in either the cookbook or programming perl. What I would like to do is randomize an entire array of jpgs in a database of about 50, then take 20 or so and print them out to a template page. What happens is that it puts ONE picture on the page, 20 times, instead of 20 thumbnails once each. Could you please help a newkid out ? Here is what I sometimes refer to as my "code". 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
$dir = "/home/usr/public/images/";
$view = "view.html";
$number_to_show = 15;
$title = "Your Title Could Go Here";


srand( time() ^ ($$ + ($$ << 15)) );

opendir DIR, "$dir";
my @arr = grep -f, grep /\.jpg$/i, map "$dir/$_", readdir DIR;
$n = @arr;

foreach (reverse 0..$n) {
my $pic = splice(@arr, rand $n, 1);
push @arr, $pic;
$#arr = $number_to_show;
}

&print_it();

sub print_it {
open (PAGE, "$dir$view") || die ("I am unable to open the template $vi
+ew");
while (<PAGE>) {
s/%%title%%/$title/g;
s/%%images%%/@arr/g;
print $_;
}
close (PAGE);
 }

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