First, it's considered good form once you've started asking questions on a piece of code to continue in the same thread, or at least reference the original thread to help monks keep track. In this case, you'd link to How to generate lotto numbers, i.e. How many tickets do you want? 3 and it prints 3..and so on... with [id://843936] -- see Markup in the Monastery.

Since you need something closer to a grab bag, I would suggest you use a list of acceptable numbers. A great utility for mixing them is shuffle in List::Util. The following sample code populates an array with numbers between 1 and 30, mixes the bag, grabs 5 values, and then prints them: 

use strict;
use warnings;
use List::Util qw(shuffle);

my @bag = (1 .. 30);     # Populate list using the range operator
@bag = shuffle(@bag);    # Shuffle the bag and store the results
my @values = @bag[0..4]; # Get the first 5 results with an array slice
print "Your numbers are @values\n";

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In reply to Re: How do I get my code to not repeat numbers and also sort the numbers by kennethk
in thread How do I get my code to not repeat numbers and also sort the numbers by tangieb01

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