shouldn't it be written as this to aviod that confusion:
my $RandomScript = $Scripts[rand(@Scripts)];
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> From: Felix Geerinckx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Subject: Re: Thanks - Re: Regex problem extracting middle-word part of
> string
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> > I didn't quite see why you would have to do a +1 on the following:
> >
> > my $RandomScript = $Scripts[int(rand($#Scripts + 1))];
>
> The '$#array' construct returns the index of the last element of the
> '@array'. 'rand $number' returns a random number between 0
> (inclusive)
> and $number (exclusive). the 'int' function throws away the
> fractional
> part.
>
> If you don't add 1, you would never get the last array-element.
>
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