I am trying to get a program to randomly pick 300 lines from a text file. I am getting output but I'm getting 300 lines that are exactly the same. Would anyone be able to help me and tell me what I'm doing wrong here? I would so appreciate it. 

use strict;
use warnings;

open (OUT, ">c:/work/250/250_random.txt");
open (IN, "c:/work/250/Master_file.txt");

$size=300;
$count = ();

while (<IN>){
      while ($count<=$size){
              rand($.)<1 && ($line=$_);
            print OUT $line;
            $count++;    
            }
        }
close IN;
close OUT;

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In reply to Picking Random Lines from a File by de2425

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