##this bit of the script is not working ###

 #        @uniform = $random_number;
                                
#                    my @temp =   map { [ $_[1], $_[0], $_ ] } # step 
+1
   #                          map { $_->[2] } # step 2
   #                           @uniform;

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From the "step 1" and "step 2" comments, I think that you may just be able to reverse those parts. 

    my @temp = # third, the final results are stored in @temp
        map { $_->[2] } # second this applies to the results of the fo
+llowing:
        map { [ $_[1], $_[0], $_ ] } # first this applies to @uniform
        @uniform;

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In many cases where folks stack map or grep, they could combine them. The above is the same as 

    my @temp = map { ($_[1], $_[0], $_ )[2] } @uniform;

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which is the same as 

    my @temp = @uniform;

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Did you intend for that portion of code to do something else?

In reply to Re: Selecting, matching and counting column elements, using randomly generated numbers by perlpie
in thread Selecting, matching and counting column elements, using randomly generated numbers by $new_guy

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