On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:06, John W. Krahn<jwkr...@shaw.ca> wrote:
> Chas. Owens wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:01, John W. Krahn<jwkr...@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> snip
>>>>
>>>> If you want to use the string in a URL then it cannot be truly random,
>>>> because
>>>> not every character can appear in a URL.
>>>
>>> That does not make sense.
>>
>> snip
>>
>> I believe he/she meant that not every character is allowed in a regex,
>
> But... every character *is* allowed in a regex.
Whoops typo, that should have been URL not regex.
>
>> so you can't just generate a random string made up of any characters.
>> You must use a restricted character set.
>
> Yes, but, you can use any number of encoding schemes to translate "any
> character" to an "unrestricted character".
snip
Yes, but why bother for a random string? Just create one that has the
right number of characters of the restricted set:
my $random = join '', map { $set[rand @set] } 1 .. 20;
or use a random number in base 16 or 64.
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