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Top Forums Programming Random number is not reused Post 302376010 by limmer on Monday 30th of November 2009 10:38:31 AM
Old 11-30-2009
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Originally Posted by Corona688
It's saying it's not constant because it's not. Smilie You can't initialize variables from non-constant things, i.e. functions in C. Initialize it once at the beginning of main().
I tried deleting the RANDOM function and placing its contents inside main, then use a variable to feed the random number to the other functions. This works yet it defeats the whole purpose of using a function to generate a random number.

This is for a website, so having to include this bunch of code inside every single webpage is kind of inefficient... That is why I wanted to use a single function.

Is there no other way of achieving this by reusing the RANDOM function???
 

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Crypt::Random::Source::Factory(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		       Crypt::Random::Source::Factory(3pm)

NAME
Crypt::Random::Source::Factory - Load and instantiate sources of random data SYNOPSIS
use Crypt::Random::Source::Factory; my $f = Crypt::Random::Source::Factory->new; my $strong = $f->get_strong; my $weak = $f->get_weak; my $any = $f->get; DESCRIPTION
This class implements a loading and instantiation factory for Crypt::Random::Source objects. If $ENV{CRYPT_RANDOM_NOT_PLUGGABLE} is set then only a preset list of sources will be tried. Otherwise Module::Find will be used to locate any installed sources, and use the first available one. METHODS
get %args Instantiate any random source, passing %args to the constructor. The "type" argument can be "weak", "strong" or "any". get_weak %args get_strong %args Instantiate a new weak or strong random source. AUTHOR
Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@woobling.org> COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Yuval Kogman. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. perl v5.14.2 2011-01-05 Crypt::Random::Source::Factory(3pm)
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