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| author | Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com> | 2001-04-29 17:53:48 -0400 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2001-04-30 10:56:08 +0000 |
| commit | 6063ba187760a62f10a97ba9dd6ff5a93107bb51 (patch) | |
| tree | cae4c4a841e2f6405e4a0a60ebb81e23115d177b /pod/perlfunc.pod | |
| parent | 35dcc76e92e9d0d2ee72780d700d8645acd7cae8 (diff) | |
| download | perl-6063ba187760a62f10a97ba9dd6ff5a93107bb51.tar.gz | |
[DOC PATCH bleadperl] Document generation of random integers
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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 4e7f1a940e..b97c4a896e 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -3509,6 +3509,13 @@ than the value of EXPR. (EXPR should be positive.) If EXPR is omitted, the value C<1> is used. Automatically calls C<srand> unless C<srand> has already been called. See also C<srand>. +Apply C<int()> to the value returned by C<rand()> if you want random +integers instead of random fractional numbers. For example, + + int(rand(10)) + +returns a random integer between C<0> and C<9>, inclusive. + (Note: If your rand function consistently returns numbers that are too large or too small, then your version of Perl was probably compiled with the wrong number of RANDBITS.) |