Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part IV: String and Array Creation

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January 08, 2010, 12:34

>perl -le 'print map { ("a".."z")[rand 26] } 1..8'

>Here the map function executes ("a".."z")[rand >26] code 8 times (because it iterates over the >dummy range 1..8).
OK.
>In each iteration the code >chooses a random >letter from the alphabet.
Would you please explain how that works?

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