Lianja

Generating Random ASCII Strings

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Demonstrates how to generate random us-ascii strings. Lianja

llSuccess = .F.

// This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

llSuccess = .F.

loFortuna = createobject("CkPrng")

// Generate random strings having only lowercase chars (a-z)
// Disallow digits and uppercase and only allow lowercase
llBDigits = .F.
llBUppercase = .F.
llBLowercase = .T.

? "-- only lowercase alpha (a-z)"
for i = 1 to 10
    // Generate 20-character strings.
    ? loFortuna.RandomString(20,llBDigits,llBLowercase,llBUppercase)
next

// Allow both lowercase and uppercase alpha chars
llBUppercase = .T.
? "-- lower and uppercase alpha (a-zA-Z)"
for i = 1 to 10
    // Generate 20-character strings.
    ? loFortuna.RandomString(20,llBDigits,llBLowercase,llBUppercase)
next

// Allow digits (0-9)
llBDigits = .T.
? "-- digits and lower/uppercase alpha (0-9a-zA-Z)"
for i = 1 to 10
    // Generate 20-character strings.
    ? loFortuna.RandomString(20,llBDigits,llBLowercase,llBUppercase)
next

// Allow only digits (0-9)
llBUppercase = .F.
llBLowercase = .F.
? "-- only digits (0-9)"
for i = 1 to 10
    // Generate 20-character strings.
    ? loFortuna.RandomString(20,llBDigits,llBLowercase,llBUppercase)
next


release loFortuna