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i was under the impression that this wasn't necessary anymore, and looking at srand, 
In fact, it's usually not necessary to call srand() at all, because if
+ it is
not called explicitly, it is called implicitly at the first use of the
+ rand()
operator. However, this was not the case in version of Perl before 5.0
+04, so
if your script will run under older Perl versions, it should call sran
+d()

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Re: Re: Re: generating random filenames
by tachyon (Chancellor) on Jul 10, 2001 at 22:49 UTC

    While I could hide behind a "you need to do this for older versions of perl" the truth is I did not know you can now drop it :-) Thanks for the info. Getting slack on reading those man pages. I'll still probably use it for a while yet though just to make sure my random stuff is random across the board. 5.04 was a while ago now but some systems still use 4!

    cheers

    tachyon

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