Auto Generator

[John Esak]

Well,
I was assuming you could prepend or add some alpha to a random number.  As
for being unique. No way with only 8 characters.  Well, you know what I
mean.
The rand() fuctiion in any language never gaurantees unique'ness.  :-)

John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of DataDoIt
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 4:03 PM
> To: filepro-list at seaslug.org
> Subject: RE: Auto Generator
>
>
> Does RAND allow for alpha characters?  Online help shows it only works for
> numbers.
>
> Is it possible to tell RAND to not pull numbers greater than, say, 36?
> (0-9, a-z)  I could then decipher if it's a number greater than 9, pull a
> corresponding alpha character (10 = a, 11 = b, etc.).
>
> Am I making this more complicated than it has to be?
>
> -Mike R.
>
> |-----Original Message-----
> |From: John Esak [mailto:john at valar.com]
> |Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 3:42 PM
> |To: filepro at datadoit.com
> |Cc: filePro mailing list
> |Subject: RE: Auto Generator
> |
> |
> |I did back in the late 80's on an NCR system... but I could
> |never find it
> |now. However, it would only be a line or two of code using rand().
> |
> |John Esak
> |
> |
> |> -----Original Message-----
> |> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com
> |> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf
> |Of DataDoIt
> |> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 2:38 PM
> |> To: filepro-list at seaslug.org
> |> Subject: Auto Generator
> |>
> |>
> |> Has anyone ever created an auto password generator from filePro?
> |> Something
> |> that will create a random 8 digit alphanumeric passcode, yet
> |be unique.
> |>
> |> -Mike R.
> |>
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