Anyone know if perl's built-in rand in conjunction with srand will produce consistant output across builds and platforms?.

I'm getting consistant results for the 5 versions I have on my platform: 

>perl5.8.6.exe -le"srand(1); print rand for 1 .. 10"
0.001251220703125
0.563568115234375
0.19329833984375
0.8087158203125
0.584991455078125
0.4798583984375
0.35028076171875
0.89593505859375
0.82281494140625
0.74658203125

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But does that extend to other platforms?

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In reply to rand and srand across builds and platforms? by BrowserUk

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