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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Random Post 302118794 by keyvan on Thursday 24th of May 2007 08:37:37 AM
Old 05-24-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by anbu23
Code:
no=$(( RANDOM % 21 + 1 ))
while read str
do
	(( no = no - 1 ))
	if [[ $no -eq 0 ]]; then
		word=$str
		break
	fi
done < words_list_file 
letters=$(echo $word | wc -c)
letters=$(( $letters - 1 ))
template="$(echo $word | tr '[a-z A-Z 0-9]' '.')"
remaining=$letters

am i correct to assume that the above script will produce a random word, as long as the words are set as follow:

[TEXT]
word1
word2
word3
word4
etc..
[/TEXT]

K
 

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Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			  Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)

NAME
Graphics::Primitive::Insets - Space between things DESCRIPTION
Graphics::Primitive::Insets represents the amount of space that surrounds something. This object can be used to represent either padding or margins (in the CSS sense, one being inside the bounding box, the other being outside) SYNOPSIS
use Graphics::Primitive::Insets; my $insets = Graphics::Primitive::Insets->new({ top => 5, bottom => 5, left => 5, right => 5 }); METHODS
Constructor new Creates a new Graphics::Primitive::Insets. Instance Methods as_array Return these insets as an array in the form of top, right, bottom and left. bottom Set/Get the inset from the bottom. equal_to Determine if these Insets are equal to another. left Set/Get the inset from the left. right Set/Get the inset from the right. top Set/Get the inset from the top. zero Sets all the insets (top, left, bottom, right) to 0. AUTHOR
Cory Watson, "<gphat@cpan.org>" SEE ALSO
perl(1) COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE Copyright 2008-2010 by Cory G Watson. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.12.3 2010-08-21 Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)
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