You should look at the rand function perldoc -f rand
also, perldoc perlop and look for the . operator and .= operator as well as the .. range operator. If that doesn't work, try asking your professor for help. Tanton ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 9:32 PM Subject: Re: random string > Hi, > > why would you want to use Perl in the first place? no other alternatives? > Maybe, But I am not a coder at all. > > your problem is straight forward and if you are not familiar with Perl, you > > might want to go with another language. i don't think it will be that hard > > right? c/c++? java? shell script? > hehehehee, if I knew that then i would have made it myself. I know a bit > of shell scripting, but I never knew that one can generate random string > in shell. > Can you help me do it in perl? > My requirement is very very simple. To write a program which will > generate *just* a random string of say 8 characters. Characters allowed > will be - [a-z] [A-Z] [0-9]. Can it be done? > Thanks and bye. > -Payal > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Contact :- Linux Success Stories : - > <payal at hotpop dot com> www.geocities.com/rpayal99 > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
