After doing some reading and searching on rand() I haven't quite found any documentation on something I'm trying to accomplish. I know how to randomize numbers from 0 .. 100 or from 50 .. 100 but I'm trying to randomize more than just numbers. Can someone show me the most simplistic way to randomly choose x elements from an array?

ie: @array = qw(aaron george bob tom nick heyyou john);

From this I want to randomly pick out an x number (in this case let's say we want to pull back 2) words from the list. Can someone help me figure this one out?

Thanks!

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sulfericacid

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