I am creating a random picture display script. the user defines how many pictures to be displayed on each page. But it also needs to be random. I am running into trouble with the random part. I can randomly select a picture from the directory and print it, but I need to then be able to remove that picture from the list to be displayed so that it will not be displayed again. here is the code i have so far:
for($i=1; $i<=$a; $i++){
     $randomelement = $thumbs[rand @thumbs];     
    print "<img src=\"$picture_directory/$randomelement\">$picture_dir
+ectory/$randomelement<br>";
splice(@thumbs, $randomelement,1); 
        
}

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As you can see I am trying to use the splice function,but because it is random, it doesn't work. How do I remove $randomelement from @thumbs? @thumbs is the list of all the pictures in the directory.

In reply to remove a random variable from an array by Anonymous Monk

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