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That code is longer and slower than it needs to be. All you need is:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

@html = ('index.apricot.html',
'index.butter.html',
'index.garden.html',
'index.greek.html',
'index.maple.html',
'index.raspberry.html',
'index.strawberry.html',
'index.natural.html');


my $rand = $html[rand @html];

open (H, "</home/fba/beta.rachelsorganic.co.uk/$rand");
while (<H>) { print; }
close H;

That will work with any version of perl. If it doesn't you screwed up your perl installation.

Also you don't need the int in [int rand @html] seeing as you aren't dealing with an integer Tongue

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Thread Illegal variable name. Wil 20742 Nov 12, 2001, 8:23 AM
Thread Re: [Wil] Illegal variable name.
Paul 19592 Nov 12, 2001, 8:48 AM
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Wil 19584 Nov 12, 2001, 8:53 AM
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Paul 19560 Nov 12, 2001, 8:55 AM
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Wil 19732 Nov 12, 2001, 8:58 AM
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Paul 19439 Nov 12, 2001, 9:00 AM
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Stealth 19513 Nov 12, 2001, 9:06 AM
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Paul 19464 Nov 12, 2001, 9:11 AM
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Wil 19563 Nov 12, 2001, 9:12 AM
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Paul 20003 Nov 12, 2001, 9:16 AM
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Wil 19645 Nov 12, 2001, 9:21 AM
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Chaz 19640 Nov 12, 2001, 9:35 AM
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Wil 19529 Nov 12, 2001, 9:45 AM
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Paul 19466 Nov 12, 2001, 9:49 AM
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Wil 19575 Nov 12, 2001, 9:52 AM
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Paul 19393 Nov 12, 2001, 9:55 AM
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Paul 19987 Nov 12, 2001, 9:52 AM
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Wil 19491 Nov 12, 2001, 9:54 AM
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Paul 19612 Nov 12, 2001, 9:56 AM
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Wil 19571 Nov 12, 2001, 10:04 AM
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Paul 19364 Nov 12, 2001, 10:08 AM
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Paul 19430 Nov 12, 2001, 10:11 AM
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Wil 19462 Nov 12, 2001, 10:21 AM
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Paul 19429 Nov 12, 2001, 10:26 AM
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Wil 16083 Nov 12, 2001, 1:07 PM
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Paul 15991 Nov 12, 2001, 1:47 PM
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Wil 15976 Nov 13, 2001, 2:28 AM
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Paul 16085 Nov 13, 2001, 5:04 AM
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Wil 16089 Nov 13, 2001, 5:28 AM
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Paul 15911 Nov 13, 2001, 5:35 AM
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Wil 15907 Nov 13, 2001, 5:43 AM
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Wil 15840 Nov 13, 2001, 5:43 AM
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Paul 16003 Nov 13, 2001, 5:47 AM
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Wil 15947 Nov 13, 2001, 6:09 AM
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Paul 15970 Nov 13, 2001, 6:15 AM
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Wil 15958 Nov 13, 2001, 6:30 AM
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Wil 15858 Nov 13, 2001, 8:42 AM
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Paul 16085 Nov 13, 2001, 8:47 AM
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Wil 15843 Nov 13, 2001, 9:01 AM
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Chaz 15909 Nov 13, 2001, 6:11 AM
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sponge 16018 Nov 12, 2001, 2:36 PM
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Paul 16178 Nov 12, 2001, 3:17 PM
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sponge 16051 Nov 13, 2001, 11:10 AM
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Paul 15827 Nov 13, 2001, 11:46 AM
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Paul 19494 Nov 12, 2001, 9:36 AM
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Paul 15913 Nov 13, 2001, 11:52 AM
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Wil 15916 Nov 13, 2001, 12:11 PM
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Paul 15974 Nov 13, 2001, 12:19 PM
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Wil 15797 Nov 13, 2001, 12:23 PM