note bart <c> my @subset = @array[0 .. int rand(1 + @array)-1]; </c> If the second parameter for the <c>..</c> operator is lower than the first parameter, then you'll get no items. <p>BTW this will <em>not</em> return a random number of random elements. Instead it'll return the first N elements where N is a random number. If you want random elements, you could shuffle the array first. 1007684 1007684