random numbers?

[elegidito]

im looking for a function to generate random numbers, for example Javascript has Math.random() im looking for a similar function in CGI. thanks Suceess, thats the way you spell success!
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$lower=1000; 
$upper=2000000; 
$random = int(rand( $upper-$lower+1 ) ) + $lower; 
print $random,"\n";

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[elegidito]

thanks so much. -- i was also wondering how you can access the variables passed to the page in the location (

http://www.whatever.com/wee.cgi?stuffpassinghere).

javascript has document.location.search... any help wud b appreciated Suceess, thats the way you spell success!
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<form action=&quot;wee.cgi&quot; method=&quot;post&quot;>
<input name=&quot;theinput&quot; value=&quot;2&quot; ....
...

read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});
@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);
foreach $pair (@pairs) {
 ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
 $value =~ tr/+/ /;
 $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack(&quot;C&quot;, hex($1))/eg;
 $value =~ s/<!--(.|\n)*-->//g;
 $FORM{$name} = $value;
}

if ($FORM{theinput} == 2) {
 # 'theinput' value is 2 do something
}

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