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Re: Random character String


  • Subject: Re: Random character String
  • From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:13:59 +0000

on 16/3/05 7:04 pm, Michelle Steiner at email@hidden wrote:

> set foo to ""
> set bar to random number from 8 to 10
> repeat bar times
> set foo to foo & (ASCII character of (random number from 65 to 90))
> end repeat
> foo

This is 31 bytes better:

set x to ""
repeat (random number from 8 to 10) times
    set x to x & some item of "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
end repeat


:-)

--
Martin Orpen


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