Miss P > Some people say that I have to pay for writing the script. Me > ???????????????what are such ppl doing here anyway??????????????? we're all here to help each other out aren't we ? these ppl are requested to put their hoardings elsewhere... pay and that too for a beginner exercise...hilarious :D Miss P > I couldn't make heads and tails out of this. If you had given only John's solution and a mail in Hebrew, I would have not able to make out the difference ;-)
Me > hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I personally believe John's solution was as elegant as they come. Probably your predicament is you don't know how to use it. Just copy-paste the following in a file and save it with the extension .pl #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------ open PASWDFILE , ">pswdfile" # you may want to replace what's in the quotes #with the exact path of the pswd file you want to generate # character set to choose from as per your example my @chars = ( 'a' .. 'z', 'A' .. 'Z', 0 .. 9 ); # pick eight random characters from the array my $string = join '', map $chars[ rand @chars ], 1 .. 8;#don't bother with the howz and whyz of this line...just use it ;) print $string; #just so that you know what is being written into the file...comment it out later. print PASWDFILE , $string; #write the random string of length 8 in the file #--------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------ Your application could then read this generated file and use the randomstring as you desire. Once it's contents have been read , do unlink(delete) this file using your bash program. Miss P > and when I didn't receive any concrete answers I was led to believe that it cannot be accomplished in perl easily even by advanced users. Me > hope your belief has been belied :) Miss P >I wish I can write coooool perl programs. I will be instant hit here, especially with guys ;-) Me > ... only if you write real *beautiful* code and have read the perl *Cook*book :D -aman ------------------- Nishkaam Sevabhaav ------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]