[Wellington-pm] Select at random from a list

[Philip Plane]

On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Jacinta Richardson wrote:

> 	$mp3 = $playlist[int(rand(scalar(@playlist)))];
>
> can also be written as:
>
> 	$mp3 = $playlist[ rand(@playlist) ];

Yes, I could do that. Turns out I can also do:

 $mp3 = $playlist[rand @playlist];

And even better I can correct for the off by one bug that I'd deliberately
put in to see if you were all awake :)

 $mp3 = $playlist[rand @playlist +1];

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