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Pass an upper limit as an argument to the rand() function. Input: my $upper_limit = 100; my $random = rand($upper_limit); print $random . "\n"; Output: A random floating-point number, like... 45.8733038119139

Cast your random floating-point number as an int. Input: my $range = 10; # create random integer as low as 0 and as high as 9 my $random = int(rand($range)); # max value is up to but not equal to $range print $random . "\n"; Output: A random integer, like... 0 See also t...

my @letters = ( 'a' .. 'z' ); # English ascii-bet print $letters[ rand @letters ] for 1 .. 5; # prints 5 letters at random How it works rand EXPR expects a scalar value, so @letters is evaluated in scalar context An array in scalar context returns the number of elements it ...