Re: AW: AW: How do I pick one random element from an array?

[Dave Tang]

On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:48:55 +1000, Thomas Bätzler <t.baetzler@xxxxxxxxxx>  
wrote:

> Dave Tang <d.tang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> asked:
> > Just a quick question, how does Perl interpret something like
> > $array[0.7995038473872]?
>
> Just like $array[ int(0.7995038473872) ], i.e. the floating point number  
> is coerced into an integer value by cutting off the decimal places.

Ah cool. So when using rand in this aspect (i.e. getting random indexes  
from an array), the int is negligible?

Thanks Thomas!

Cheers,

Dave

> HTH,
> Thomas


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