Re: Get random element from HoA

Maybe it's me, but your question is a bit confusing. Are you saying that $some_number would be the hash key that you want to get a random element from? As in, given $some_number = 20 you want to randomly get either "george" or "jane" or "elroy"?

You can certainly index into your HoA without line 6.

my $foo = $hoa{20}[1];  # assigns "jane" to $foo
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Re^2: Get random element from HoA by Anonymous Monk on Dec 27, 2007 at 18:01 UTC
Yes, it's some kind of score that's used for the key.	[reply]