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Here's a nice little sub to generate a random string, if you want one: 
sub random_string {
    local $" = '';
    "@{[map{chr(97+int rand 26)} 1 .. shift]}";
}

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Nobody says perl looks like line-noise any more
kids today don't know what line-noise IS ...

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Re^2: Read value from file, replace, then write to new file
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 23, 2007 at 21:19 UTC

    local $" = ''; "@{[ ... ]}"
    instead of
    join '', ...? 

    sub random_string {
    join '', map{chr(97+int rand 26)} 1 .. shift;
}

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