Generating a random string with Perl
By Abhinav 2888 days ago Comments (1)
#!/usr/bin/perl
# This function generates random strings of a given length
sub generate_random_string
{
my $length_of_randomstring=shift;# the length of
# the random string to generate
my @chars=('a'..'z','A'..'Z','0'..'9','_');
my $random_string;
foreach (1..$length_of_randomstring)
{
# rand @chars will generate a random
# number between 0 and scalar @chars
$random_string.=$chars[rand @chars];
}
return $random_string;
}
#Generate the random string
my $random_string=&generate_random_string(11);
print "Random string: ".$random_string."\n";
print "Length: ".length($random_string)."\n";
Comments
Hmmm interesting, but I prefer Perl module String::Random;
use String::Random;
my $pass = String::Random->new;
print "Your password is ", $pass->randpattern("CCcc!ccn"), "\n";
This would output something like this:
Your password is UDwp$tj5