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:

210.114.174.159
179.109.16.163
69.198.235.233
156.91.54.33
207.58.108.125
30.138.33.56
159.67.60.202
152.91.56.166
206.230.248.165
119.223.60.203


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