I'm trying to produce a random image link display (like a banner rotator). My idea was to keep the information inside of my database like $db{$imagetitle} = $urltolinkto; and make an array out of it (using || as a separator).

Is there a better method to doing this? Better = easier to maintain but not harder to understand.

Thanks everyone. 

my @imagearray;  # array for everything in database
foreach (keys %db) {
push(@imagearray, "$_||$db{$_}";  # $imagetitle || $url
}

my @shuffled_array = shuffle(@imagearray); # shuffle the array

my($name, $url) = split("||", "$shuffled_array[0]"); # split array on 
+||

print qq(<a href="$url"><img src="/images/$name"></a>);

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