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Random Char(password) creation

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Submitted on: 5/20/2003 3:57:17 PM
By: Giles Papworth  
Level: Beginner
User Rating: By 1 Users
Compatibility:5.0 (all versions), Active Perl specific, 4.0 (all versions), 3.0 (all versions), Pre 3.0

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     This code generates a number of random alpha numeric charactors, can be used for random passwords
 
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    =**************************************
    = Name: Random Char(password) creation
    = Description:This code generates a numb
    =     er of random alpha numeric charactors, c
    =     an be used for random passwords
    = By: Giles Papworth
    =
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    =     wCode.asp?txtCodeId=470&lngWId;=6    =for details.    =**************************************
    
    #!/usr/bin/perl
    print "content-type: text/html\n\n";
    @char = ("A" .. "Z", "a" .. "z", "0" .. "9");
    $chars = \@char;
    $length = @char;
    $count=0;
    while($count <15){ #set the number here to the amount of charactors needed
    $num = rand($length);
    $password = $password . $$chars[$num];
    $count++;
    }
    print $password; #this is the randomly created string do what you want with this.


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10/3/2003 7:20:00 PM:Eric Hodges
or you could do this. fun use of map 
and join :)
sub RandomString {
my $len = shift || 15;
    my @chars = 
( "A".."Z", "a".."z", 0..9);
return join '', map { $chars[ rand 
@chars ] } 1..$len;
}
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