(tye)Re: random number generation problem

Please don't. As others have noted, Perl often does this for you. What they haven't noted is that when Perl does, it does a better job than you did.

For more details and suggestions of how to do it in a way that works for both old and new Perl, see Perl's auto srand() RE: a random sort of list.

- tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

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Re^2: random number generation problem by tadman (Prior) on Apr 27, 2001 at 02:17 UTC
During testing, I found it odd that rand() was producing random numbers without the use of srand(), which for the longest time was a strict requirement. Now, I would have deleted the node, but by the time I got around to doing that, the thread was growing like a weed. Just another one of those incredible things that changed but nobody really knew.	[reply]