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       Data::Random::WordList - Perl module to get random words from a word list


         use Data::Random::WordList;

         my $wl = new Data::Random::WordList( wordlist => '/usr/share/dict/words' );

         my @rand_words = $wl->get_words(10);



       Data::Random::WordList is a module that manages a file containing a list of words.

       The module expects each line of the word list file to contain only one word.  It could
       thus be easily used to select random lines from a file, but for coherency's sake, I'll
       keep referring to each line as a word.

       The module uses a persistent filehandle so that there isn't a lot of overhead every time
       you want to fetch a list of random words.  However, it's much more efficient to grab
       multiple words at a time than it is to fetch one word at a time multiple times.

       The module also refrains from reading the whole file into memory, so it can be safer to
       use with larger files.


       Returns a reference to a new Data::Random::WordList object.  Use the "wordlist" param to
       initialize the object:

       ·   wordlist - the path to the wordlist file.  If a path isn't supplied, the wordlist
           distributed with this module is used.

       NUM contains the number of words you want from the wordlist.  NUM defaults to 1 if it's
       not specified.  get_words() dies if NUM is greater than the number of words in the
       wordlist.  This function returns an array or an array reference depending on the context
       in which it's called.

       Closes the filehandle associated with the word list.  It's good practice to do this every
       time you're done with the word list.




       Originally written by: Adekunle Olonoh

       Currently maintained by: Buddy Burden (, starting with version 0.06


       Copyright (c) 2000-2011 Adekunle Olonoh.  Copyright (c) 2011-2015 Buddy Burden.  All
       under the same terms as Perl itself.