Amir says: : I'm not sure whether you meant this by "does exactly what one might expect". : Because what it does is *not at all* randomize these integers. Okay, you got me. I guess I meant that it looked random enough to me. :-) : Notice the "1 2 3" in the second example? Uh, well ... now I do. Regards, ________________________ Eli Evans Text Preparation Manager Libronix Corp. mailto:eli@libronix.com http://www.libronix.com Ec 12:12; Jn 21:22 ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe