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24 lines
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This module simplifies the routine job of selecting a random file. (As you
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can find at CGI scripts). It's done, because it's boring (and
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errorprone), always to write something like
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my @files = (<*.*>);
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my $randf = $files[rand @files];
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or
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opendir DIR, " ... " or die " ... ";
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my @files = grep {-f ...} (readdir DIR);
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closedir DIR;
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my $randf = $files[rand @files];
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It also becomes very boring and very dangerous to write randomly selection
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for subdirectory searching with special check-routines. The simple
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standard job of selecting a random line from a file is implemented, too.
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WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-Random/
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Author: Janek Schleicher <bigj@kamelfreund.de>
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- Aaron Dalton
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aaron@daltons.ca
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