Re: random string

2002-11-23 Thread rpayal
Hi, Thanks for the mail. > perldoc -f rand > also, > perldoc perlop Thanks, I will. > If that doesn't work, try asking your professor for help. hehehehehee, I don't have any professor. I am not a student and I never was a computer student. I am just a artist in fashion designing who does Linux as a

Re: random string

2002-11-23 Thread rpayal
Hi, > By now you will probably have worked out that this community is very > happy to help people of any ability to improve their Perl skills, but is > rather reluctant just to hand out ready-made solutions. This is as it *please read the mail in full before commenting on *anything*. * Yep, but th

Re: random string

2002-11-22 Thread rpayal
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? shel

Re: random string

2002-11-22 Thread rpayal
Hi, Thanks for the mails all. But I haven't got a sentence or even a word. Please, I am looking for a *script* which will print a random string. Please someone take trouble of putting the info. in a file so that I can cut-paste it. As, I said I know *nothing* of perl, nothing at all so all those my

random string

2002-11-22 Thread rpayal
Hi, I am not at all familar to perl. I want to write a small perl script which will print a random string of atleast 8 characters. This string I intend to use as password for my application. I don't know perl at all. perl is in /usr/local/bin/perl The script when invovked like should print, #perl