Re: 1, random; 2, unicode

Adriano Allora wrote:
two questions:

1) I need to extract a random item from an hash, does exist a function
to do it? A module? An implementable and not-too-much-slow flowchart?

Why not just get a list of the keys, and then choose a random key from
that list?

{untested}
my $random_key = (keys %hash)[rand(keys %hash)];
my $random_value = $hash{$random_key};

Paul Lalli

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