I'm not clear on what you're trying to do. Perhaps putting the page numbers in a lookup table (a hash) would help get us along the road a bit.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $beholder = 'beholder';
my $book  = 'Monstrous Manual'; #default book

my @gen = (
  'beholder',
  'death kiss',
  'eye of the deep',
  'gauth',
  'spectator',
  'undead',
  'hive mother',
  'director',
  'examiner',
  'lensman',
  'overseer',
  'watcher',
  'Monstrous Manual',
);

my %pg = (
  'beholder' => 21,
  'death kiss' => 21,
  'eye of the deep' => 21,
  'gauth' => 21,
  'spectator' => 21,
  'undead' => 21,
  'hive mother' => 25,
  'director' => 25,
  'examiner' => 25,
  'lensman' => 25,
  'overseer' => 25,
  'watcher' => 25,
);

my $section = $gen[rand @gen];
my $page = $pg{$section};
print "$section $beholder (<i>$book</i>, pg $page) \n";

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In reply to Re^2: Creating a random generator by wfsp
in thread Creating a random generator by Lady_Aleena

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