esper, andreas1234567, and dwm042;

There are tiny variations between the code that you gave me. Will that make a difference? I would like to have as little white space as possible. So are all the carriage returns needed between the lines?

Now that I have the .pl file, how would I integrate this onto a web page? I do not have Perl installed on my computer at home so the only way to see it working is using on a web page.

Update 1

dwm042...On the following line, does "int" mean interger?

my $col = int(rand(scalar @colors));

To all

Can the items in the array(?) be put on seperate lines? In the actual generator I would like to create each item will be a phrase, a sentence, or a table and most will consist of a lot of html code.

Update 2

What does the qw mean on the following line? Found it in a search.

my @colors = qw(red yellow green cyan blue magenta white gray black);

Update 3

The above scripts are all causing 500 Internal Service Errors when I try to run them. I CHMOD 755'd them, was that wrong? Found the fix. I needed to add the following code.

print "content-type: text/html \n\n";

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In reply to Re^2: Creating a random generator by Lady_Aleena
in thread Creating a random generator by Lady_Aleena

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