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Pretty much the same way you do random numbers, I'd think: 
my @letters = ('a'..'z');
my $random_letter = $letters[int rand @letters];

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If you wanted capitals, as well: 
my @letters = ('a'..'z', 'A'..'Z');
print $letters[int rand @letters], "\n";

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RE: Re: Random letters
by turnstep (Parson) on Apr 12, 2000 at 19:20 UTC

    Actually, you don't even need the 'int' - it just slows things down. Faster still, store the number of elements in the array into a scalar:

    @letters=(A..Z,a..z);
$total=@letters;
$newletter = $letters[rand $total];

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