Comments on: generate random Strings in AS2 or AS3

By: Jk_

Jk_ — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:48:15 +0000

Super helpful! Thanks for sharing.

By: ChrisS

ChrisS — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:19:24 +0000

Thanks for posting this!

By: Arun

Arun — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:12:20 +0000

Thanks . It was very useful !!!

By: Burton

Burton — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:09:29 +0000

Thanks so much for this. Quick fix for a need for some tokens for some game data!

By: architortured

architortured — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:11:03 +0000

Hello,
I also am very grateful for this; however, I have absolutely no idea how to implement it. Also, could you clarify your response to Dhaval? I am new to Flash, and wouldn’t be offended if you didn’t have time to explain this.

By: zedia.net

zedia.net — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:38:53 +0000

@Dhaval Basically what you would need to do is to put each character of your string in an array. After that all you do is swap random slots in your array (put slot 1 into 3 and 3 into 1 and repeat randomly a few time (30 or so depending on the number of characters of your starting string)) and then reassemble your String. Hope this help

By: Dhaval

Dhaval — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:58:41 +0000

Hi your function is really helpful but my requirement is little different i want a function to jumble the letters and return them back to me eg
if i input “CLOUD” it should give me output as “CDOUL”

By: Nehul

Nehul — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:01:20 +0000

Thank you so much. I knew how to do it in java.

anybody wants something similar in java here is the code

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String value = UUID.randomUUID().toString().replace(“-”,”").substring(0,5);
int random = new java.util.Random().nextInt();
String emailvercode = value+String.valueOf(random);
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By: zedia.net

zedia.net — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:02:20 +0000

@sagar Well you could use my function but as an alphabet pass it something like "abcdefghijklmnopqstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQSTUVWXYZ" (alphabet but without the "r" or "R") that should work.

By: sagar

sagar — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:17:45 +0000

Hi,

This is gr8!
but am trying for a method which takes a character as a parameter generateRandomString(5, ‘R’), which returns a string has no ‘R’ as well no ‘r’. will you please provide any suggestions??

thanks in advance!