Perl

Generating Random ASCII Strings

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Demonstrates how to generate random us-ascii strings. Chilkat2 Perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

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

my $success = 0;

my $fortuna = Chilkat2::Prng->new;

# Generate random strings having only lowercase chars (a-z)
# Disallow digits and uppercase and only allow lowercase
my $bDigits = 0;
my $bUppercase = 0;
my $bLowercase = 1;

print "-- only lowercase alpha (a-z)\n";
for my $i (1 .. 10) {
    # Generate 20-character strings.
    print $fortuna->RandomString(20, $bDigits, $bLowercase, $bUppercase), "\n";
}

# Allow both lowercase and uppercase alpha chars
$bUppercase = 1;
print "-- lower and uppercase alpha (a-zA-Z)\n";
for my $i (1 .. 10) {
    # Generate 20-character strings.
    print $fortuna->RandomString(20, $bDigits, $bLowercase, $bUppercase), "\n";
}

# Allow digits (0-9)
$bDigits = 1;
print "-- digits and lower/uppercase alpha (0-9a-zA-Z)\n";
for my $i (1 .. 10) {
    # Generate 20-character strings.
    print $fortuna->RandomString(20, $bDigits, $bLowercase, $bUppercase), "\n";
}

# Allow only digits (0-9)
$bUppercase = 0;
$bLowercase = 0;
print "-- only digits (0-9)\n";
for my $i (1 .. 10) {
    # Generate 20-character strings.
    print $fortuna->RandomString(20, $bDigits, $bLowercase, $bUppercase), "\n";
}