This is a perfect use of sprintf. Just use a %d in the sentence template whenever you want a number substituted: 
  my $template = "The lucky numbers of the day are %d, %d, %d, %d, %d 
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               . "and don't forget to play again next week.";

  my @numbers = qw/ 10 435 239 42 999 /;

  ## substitute numbers for %d in the template
  my $output = sprintf($template, @numbers);

  print "$output\n";

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Your code can vary its behavior depending on how many numbers are in the sentence template: simply count the number of occurences of %d in the template, and splice or slice off that many elements from @numbers to use with that template. I'll leave the rest to you. ;)

blokhead

In reply to Re: sentence generation by blokhead
in thread sentence generation by Ella

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