Re: Random String Generator

["Maurice O'Prey" <maurice.oprey@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nathan

Just curious myself, how does your version stand up to .NET

Function GUID() As String
        
     GUID = System.GUID.NewGuid().ToString()
        
End Function

Regards

Maurice



-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: 08 September 2008 18:04
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WEB400] Random String Generator

Last week's discussion on CAPTCHA made me curious about random number 
and random string generation because random codes are harder to break 
than say a fixed collection of codes or derived images.

So I set about to write a couple RPG procedures that could be used for 
random number and random string generation.  For example, the following 
screen shows a program for generating random strings of 4-8 characters 
based on the lower-case English alphabet.

http://www.radile.com/rdweb/temp/random.html

I found that with even a limited alphabet, the procedure can generate 
thousands of unique strings of 4-8 characters.  It was just interesting; 
A curiosity.

I don't have an immediate use for something like this, but I think it 
will come in handy sometime in a toolkit.

Nathan.