You should start your script with a use File::Random qw/:all/;

This will load the File::Random module and make all of its subroutines available in your script.

Then you can do something like:

my $dir   = '//path/to/my/SpamQuoteFilesDirectory';
my $file  = random_file(-dir => $dir);
my @lines = random_line($fname, int(rand(5)) + 1);

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This script will choose at random 1 file out of all the files in your '//path/to/my/SpamQuoteFilesDirectory' and from this file choose at random 1 to 5 lines and store them in the array @lines.

BTW, you did install File::Random first didn't you?

CountZero

"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

In reply to Re^2: will this random-text script work? how do i integrate a template? by CountZero
in thread will this random-text script work? how do i integrate a template? by hawthorne

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