Friends,

I want to replace all characters ( a-zA-Z ) with another randomly selected character. Here's what I have tried ... 
$ cat text_ob.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my $randChar = sub () {
        return  chr(int(rand(26)) + 65);
};

while (<DATA>) {
        #s/(\w)/(??{$randChar->()}/g;
        s/(\w)/$randChar/g;
        print $_;
}
__DATA__
ABCDEFG

$ ./text_ob.pl
CODE(0x1014078c)CODE(0x1014078c)CODE(0x1014078c)CODE(0x1014078c)CODE(0
+x1014078c)CODE(0x1014078c)CODE(0x1014078c)

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... this was not what I wanted :( I was hopeing for output that looked like this ... 
HJAxQPv

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Am I on the right track or way off?

Plankton: 1% Evil, 99% Hot Gas.

In reply to s/\w/random character/g by Plankton

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