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Perl Programming/Keywords/rand
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Perl qx read Keywords
The rand keyword
rand is a function that returns a random fractional number greater than or equal to 0 and less than the value of EXPRESSION. Without EXPRESSION, the value 1 is used so that the interval of the random number is .
Syntax
rand EXPRESSION
rand
Examples
The code
$a = rand(31);
print 'int(' . "$a" . ') = ', int($a); returns a number [0, 31) like int(28.7540893554688) = 28
See also
srand
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