Check your "Programming in PERL" book. Specifically, the "srand" function.
RB -----Original Message----- From: David Jacobs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 3:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cheap and unique I'm converting a few CGI scripts that used the PID as a cyclical unique number (in concert with TIMESTAMP - so it was TIMESTAMP.PID). Our goal is to find a replacement function that is extremely cheap (cheaper than say, random(1000000)) and will never repeat. Any ideas? Has anyone else faced this problem? tia David
