Long time listener, first time poster.

Not sure about effiency - I'm just always looking for an excuse to use a psuedo :-)

Consider the following:

$rnd_phash = [
    {black=>1, green=>2, blue=>3, yellow=>4, red=>5, purple=>6}, 
    'black door', 'green grass', 'blue devil', 'yellow belly', 'red ro
+ses', 'purple grape'
];

# array in psuedo hash is 1 relative not 0 relative 
$i = int rand $#{$rnd_phash} +1; 
print "Random hash element: $$rnd_phash[$i]\n";
print "The value of \$\$rnd_phash{red} is $$rnd_phash{red}\n";
print "The value of \$\$rnd_phash{purple} is $$rnd_phash{purple}\n";

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-Jim

In reply to Re: selecting random key from hash by jimrobertsiii
in thread selecting random key from hash by davidj

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