hi fella's, i'm a newbie so pls. forgive me for asking dumb questions. i want to randomly display images into HTML files. but what i want is to read the files sequentially not randomly. here is my data file that my CGI script reads. 

1|/images/banners/internal/image1.gif|http://www.blah.com
2|/images/banners/internal/dumb.gif|http://www.dumb.com
3|/images/banners/internal/perl.gif|http://www.perl.com
4|/images/banners/internal/slashdot.gif|http://www.slashdot.org
5|/images/banners/internal/linux.gif|http://www.linux.org
5|/images/banners/internal/apache.gif|http://www.apache.org
6|/images/banners/internal/bsd.gif|http://www.bsd.org
7|/images/banners/internal/penguin.gif|http://www.penguin.com

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now my script should run like this via IMG SRC tag. 

<img src="/cgi-bin/showad.cgi?type=internal&begin=1&end=3">
<img src="/cgi-bin/showad.cgi?type=internal&begin=4&end=7">

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the first IMG SRC tag runs the script showad.cgi and with the "begin" parameter having the value 1 and "end" parameter having the value "3" means that the script will pick the lines 1 to 3 from the above data file and print them randomly. same with the next IMG SRC having "begin" parameter with value 4 and "end" parameter 7 means that the script will begin at line 4 to 7 and randmly displays the image to the HTML file. i know you could help me on this guys. thanks in advance.

In reply to picking x numbers of lines from a file by damian

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