To put it bluntly, you don't know any programming languages. HTML and CSS are to programming as knowing how to drive is to building a car from the ground up; yes it's a useful skill and roughly related but verrrrry little knowledge will be of use across the problem domains. Your best bet is to get an introductory book (say Learning Perl from ORA) and absorb that. Then you'll be better equipped to proceed; and you've already got a ready made problem to do your own experimentation.

Sure someone could give you a code snippet showing you how to use rand and you could cargo cult that into something that produces some results, but you'll be back again asking how to print it out. Or how to read the list of options from a file. Or . . . ad infinitum. Learn the basics first and you'll save yourself and the people you pester for help much frustration.

In reply to Re: Creating a random generator by Fletch
in thread Creating a random generator by Lady_Aleena

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