Xojo Plugin

Generating Random ASCII Strings

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Demonstrates how to generate random us-ascii strings. Xojo Plugin

Dim success As Boolean
success = False

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

success = False

Dim fortuna As New Chilkat.Prng

Dim bDigits As Boolean
Dim bLowercase As Boolean
Dim bUppercase As Boolean

// Generate random strings having only lowercase chars (a-z)
// Disallow digits and uppercase and only allow lowercase
bDigits = False
bUppercase = False
bLowercase = True

Dim i As Int32

System.DebugLog("-- only lowercase alpha (a-z)")
For i = 1 To 10
    // Generate 20-character strings.
    System.DebugLog(fortuna.RandomString(20,bDigits,bLowercase,bUppercase))
Next

// Allow both lowercase and uppercase alpha chars
bUppercase = True
System.DebugLog("-- lower and uppercase alpha (a-zA-Z)")
For i = 1 To 10
    // Generate 20-character strings.
    System.DebugLog(fortuna.RandomString(20,bDigits,bLowercase,bUppercase))
Next

// Allow digits (0-9)
bDigits = True
System.DebugLog("-- digits and lower/uppercase alpha (0-9a-zA-Z)")
For i = 1 To 10
    // Generate 20-character strings.
    System.DebugLog(fortuna.RandomString(20,bDigits,bLowercase,bUppercase))
Next

// Allow only digits (0-9)
bUppercase = False
bLowercase = False
System.DebugLog("-- only digits (0-9)")
For i = 1 To 10
    // Generate 20-character strings.
    System.DebugLog(fortuna.RandomString(20,bDigits,bLowercase,bUppercase))
Next