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:

12.148.213.89
6.190.185.32
235.252.66.104
157.26.31.56
34.204.197.210
43.10.82.252
119.132.235.158
82.173.114.200
145.164.187.152
192.127.219.6


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