i'm having a little problem. i wrote this random mnemonic password generator that's supposed to make an 8 digit password following the (very simple) pattern of "consanant, vowel, consanent, vowel, . . ." the problem is, on occasion, it only makes a 7 digit pass, and sometimes it will break the intended pattern and and put two vowels in a row. i have no idea what's causing this. here's the code:
print "gimme a seed: ";
$s = <STDIN>;
srand ($s ^ time);
@chars = qw(b c d f g h j k l m n p r s t v w x z);
@vowels = qw(a e i o u y);

for($i = 1; $i <= 4; $i++) {
    print $chars[int(rand(20))], $vowels[int(rand(5))];
    }

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