Re: Random?

2004-10-11 Thread $Bill Luebkert
Ted S. wrote: > $Bill Luebkert graced perl with these words of wisdom: > > >>Eric Germann wrote: >> >> >>>srand () is your friend >> >>rand automatically calls srand. > > > Unless the OP is using a version of Perl prior to 5.004. :-p Now there's a waste. -- ,-/- __ _ _

Re: Random?

2004-10-11 Thread Ted Schuerzinger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] graced perl with these words of wisdom: > 1. Why does perl behave that way? > 1a. Is perl alright, and it's me who behaves strange? "Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin." -- John von Neumann. :-) -- Te

Re: Random?

2004-10-11 Thread Ted S.
$Bill Luebkert graced perl with these words of wisdom: > Eric Germann wrote: > >> srand () is your friend > > rand automatically calls srand. Unless the OP is using a version of Perl prior to 5.004. :-p -- Ted Barney: Hey, Homer, you're late for English. Homer: Who needs English? I'm

Re: Random?

2004-10-11 Thread Sisyphus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, i did this: for($x=0;$x<100;$x++) { $c=rand((100)); if(length($c)<6) { $rnd{$c}++; } } foreach $rnd (keys %rnd) { print qq($rnd{$rnd} x $rnd\n); } which produced this: 29 x 62500 33 x 15625 30 x 93750 27 x 31250 23 x 0 30 x 46875 29 x

RE: Random?

2004-10-11 Thread pratibha sharma
I have been using following for a long time and for sure is returning unique random number between the given range my $startPoint = 111; my $endPoint = 999; my $randNumber = int(rand($endPoint - $startPoint +1)) + $startPoint; for (my $i=1;$i<=20;$i++) { print "$randNumber\n"; $

Re: Random?

2004-10-11 Thread $Bill Luebkert
Eric Germann wrote: > srand () is your friend rand automatically calls srand. -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill LuebkertMailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (_/ / )// // DBE CollectiblesMailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / ) /--< o // // Castle of Medieval Myth & Magic http://

RE: Random?

2004-10-11 Thread Darrell Gammill
>From "Programming Perl", 3rd Edition: 29.2.119. rand rand EXPR rand This function returns a pseudorandom floating-point number greater than or equal to 0 and less than the value of EXPR. (EXPR should be positive.) If EXPR is omitted, the function returns a floating-point number between 0 an

RE: Random?

2004-10-11 Thread Eric Germann
srand () is your friend -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 7:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Random? Hello everybody, i did this: for($x=0;$x<100;$x++) { $c=rand((100));

Re: Random?

2004-10-11 Thread $Bill Luebkert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello everybody, > > i did this: > > for($x=0;$x<100;$x++) > { > $c=rand((100)); > if(length($c)<6) > { > $rnd{$c}++; > } > } > foreach $rnd (keys %rnd) > { > print qq($rnd{$rnd} x $rnd\n); > } > > which produced this: > > 29 x 62500 > 33 x 1562

Random?

2004-10-11 Thread h . wilder
Hello everybody, i did this: for($x=0;$x<100;$x++) { $c=rand((100)); if(length($c)<6) { $rnd{$c}++; } } foreach $rnd (keys %rnd) { print qq($rnd{$rnd} x $rnd\n); } which produced this: 29 x 62500 33 x 15625 30 x 93750 27 x 31250 23 x 0 30 x 46875 29 x 78125 which confused

AW: Print value of help please

2004-10-11 Thread Friedel.Wittrock
Hi, the last Character of $line seems to be a "\n" try this: chomp($line); print TESTOUTPUT "$line " . length($address) . $address; Friedel -Ursprungliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von Gary Kuznitz Gesendet: Montag, 11. Oktober 2004 18:06 An:

RE: Print value of help please

2004-10-11 Thread Gerber, Christopher J
> -Original Message- > Could someone please help me figure out what I am doing > wrong. I have this statement: > print TESTOUTPUT "$line" .length($address). $address; > > It's printing "$line" to a file just fine. It's printing > .length($address). > on the next line and I'd like to

Print value of help please

2004-10-11 Thread Gary Kuznitz
X-No-archive: yes Hi, Could someone please help me figure out what I am doing wrong. I have this statement: print TESTOUTPUT "$line" .length($address). $address; It's printing "$line" to a file just fine. It's printing .length($address). on the next line and I'd like to see all of it on th

Re: Help with program

2004-10-11 Thread Tom Pollard
On Sun, 10 Oct 2004, James wrote: > I am writing a program to read from an input file and > verify or not if the Quantity equal to the number of > parts. The problem is some of the parts can be in 2 or > 3 lines. Fromthe data file, the quantity match the > number of parts but I cannot find the logi