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:

191.180.42.224
221.177.36.4
152.95.222.38
93.167.119.121
223.199.171.226
243.244.126.154
234.62.226.48
27.199.32.61
125.93.31.99
92.156.26.220


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