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:

170.53.152.76
41.35.16.130
3.193.2.48
166.114.217.83
53.49.105.248
72.235.74.161
206.170.150.234
213.24.81.214
91.220.99.28
86.112.87.214


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