Make a random IP address in Perl

This Perl script makes reasonably convincing random IPv4 internet addresses.

#!/home/ben/software/install/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
sub randomip
{
    my @digits;
    for (0..3) {
        push @digits, int (rand (255) + 1);
    }
    return join '.', @digits;
}
for (0..9) {
    print randomip (), "\n";
}

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The output looks like this:

40.100.232.9
13.202.155.19
208.209.105.232
158.101.233.151
210.18.190.158
83.203.117.80
178.180.225.238
35.59.226.36
60.223.11.165
255.13.214.138


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