redo LABEL is the answer to your question, but here are a couple of "better" ways to select $maxclients unique elements from a bag (@weighteddiv).

This approach has the advantage of being simple, but it is relatively slow for large datasets and does not preserve the order in which the numbers were picked: 

my @weighteddiv = (('1234') x 7, ('9876') x 42, ('1123') x 13);
my %selected;
my $maxclients = 2;

until (keys %selected == $maxclients or @weighteddiv == 0) {
  my $i = rand(+@weighteddiv);  # Not $#
  my $pluck = splice @weighteddiv, $i, 1;
  ++$selected{$pluck};
}

my @selected = keys %selected;
print "Selected: @selected\n";

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You can preserve the order with a little more code in the loop to create @selected incrementally: 

  if (++$selected{$pluck} == 1) {
    push @selected, $pluck;
  }

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Finally, a complicated but efficient solution involving probabilities: 

my @weighteddiv = (('1234') x 7, ('9876') x 42, ('1123') x 13);
my @selected;
my $maxclients = 2;

my %occurrence;
foreach (@weighteddiv) {
  $occurrence{$_}++;
}

my $total = @weighteddiv;
until (@selected == $maxclients or keys %occurrence == 0) {
  my $i = rand($total);
  keys %occurrence;  # reset hash iterator
  while (my ($value, $count) = each %occurrence) {
    if ($i < $count) {
      push @selected, $value;
      delete $occurrence{$value};
      $total -= $count;
      last;
    }
    $i -= $count;
  }
}

print "Selected: @selected\n";

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Caveat: All solutions untested.

In reply to Re: removing the goto by TilRMan
in thread removing the goto by scoobyrico

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