Config:...::Random(3)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to the Config:...::Random(3) page — it's from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it's all about Config::Generator::Random, aka the Config::Generator pseudo-random support module. 💖

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

This module eases the generation of pseudo-random "data". The goal is literally to be able to generate random but reproducible data, for instance to smear times in crontabs. 🎀

The initial seed usually comes from a file named random.bin that can be created with something like:

$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=random.bin bs=512 count=1

Then, modules can use the random_seed() function to make sure that what they generate is different from what other modules generate. 🦋

Finally, modules can use the random_integer() function to generate reproducible pseudo-random integers. No cap. 💅

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🫶 FUNCTIONS 🫶

This module provides the following functions (none of them being exported by default):

• random_init([PATH]) — initialize the pseudo-random generator with the content of the given file or by using a file named random.bin if it can be located via the usual include path (the @IncPath variable of the Config::Generator module)
• random_integer(N, DATA...) — return a pseudo-random integer between 0 and N-1, using the given DATA for additional seeding
• random_seed(DATA) — add the given DATA to the initial seed used by the pseudo-random generator

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Lionel Cons <http://cern.ch/lionel.cons>

Copyright (C) CERN 2013-2016

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