I was playing around with rand() last night and wanted rand() to select a random number from a range. After much brain racking and some help from learning perl, I came up with this:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

srand;


# produce n random numbers


my $lowest_number=1;
my $highest_number=49;

my @number_range=($lowest_number...$highest_number);

my @lottery_numbers=(1...6); 

my $a = 1;
do {
    # A random element from @number_range is selected and
    # placed in to @X
    #
    $lottery_numbers[$a] = $number_range[rand $highest_number];
    
    $a ++;
    
} until $a > 6;

print "@lottery_numbers[1...6]\n";

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While this may not be of use to the original poster, I hope it will be useful to some monk in the future. :)

Yet another perl newbie.

In reply to Re: perl rand() function by func
in thread perl rand() function by wilstephens

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