On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Amit Joshi wrote:

> Q1: Do we have a standard way to generate random numbers in perl ?

perldoc -f rand
perldoc -q random

> Q2: How do we run system commands from a perl program ?

perldoc -f system
perldoc -q system

(perldoc -f gives you information on the usage of a specific function;
 perldoc -q gives you information from the FAQs)

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