#!/usr/bin/perl sub get_hosts { @hosts=("host1.domain.com","host1.domain.com","host1.domain.com","host1.domain.com"); @app = (); while (@hosts) { $rv = int(rand(@hosts)); push @app,$hosts[$rv]; $hosts[$rv] = $hosts[$#hosts]; pop @hosts; } $thosts = "$app[0],$app[1],$app[2],$app[3]"; return $thosts; } print &get_hosts();