Re: rand()

[jwkrahn@xxxxxxx (John W. Krahn)]

Bobby wrote:
>  
> That helps but how would i just get back an X number of random numbers
> because @nums could be in the hundreds of unique numbers. For instance,
> i just want to randomly pickout 4 numbers from a long list of unique
> numbers in @nums, how would i do that?

use List::Util qw' shuffle ';

my $X = 4;

my @random = ( shuffle @nums )[ 0 .. $X - 1 ];



John
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