Re: Random String Generator

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

Nathan wrote

> > So you can sort of control the readability of result strings

Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose? Surely a GUID (or random string)
should not be human readable? If a human can read any part of it the effect
is weakened (IMHO)?

Maurice




-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: 08 September 2008 19:17
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Random String Generator

> Maurice O'Prey wrote:
> Just curious myself, how does your version stand up to .NET
> ...  GUID = System.GUID.NewGuid().ToString()

I think NewGuid() generates strings based on timestamps, so the 
resulting string is mostly hex digits, while ranString() has optional 
parameters for specifying the size of the string you want returned (a 
range), and the consonants and vowels you want it to be based on, and 
the vowel weight, and flags to include digits and uppercase characters. 
So you can sort of control the readability of result strings.

Nathan.