On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 04:00:49PM -0500, Jamie Risk wrote: > I'm thinking I could open up "/dev/urandom/" but that hardly seems portable. > > "Jamie Risk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > b1enfr$evm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:b1enfr$evm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > I'm looking around, and I see "Quantum::Entanglement" which looks like > > overkill; I'd like to generate, 8/16/32 bit random numbers.
Perl's random number function is called "rand". perldoc -f rand my $num = int rand 2 ** $bits; -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
