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From: Brad Collins <brad@studiojungle.net>
Subject: How to create random characters?
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 16:59:52 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wkr7z7oh2f.fsf@studiojungle.net> (raw)



I'm hoping there is a simple function in elisp to do this....

I want to generate a random id which is in the format of XXX-0000
where 'XXX' is made up of ascii characters a-z and 0000 is a random
number 0000-9999.

I found random -- so that (random 10000) produces the number very
nicely but I can't find anything that will produce three random
characters in the same way.

Is there a simple way of doing this that I haven't found?

Cheers,

b/

--
Brad Collins
Chenla Labs
Bangkok, Thailand

             reply	other threads:[~2003-12-14  9:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-14  9:59 Brad Collins [this message]
2003-12-14 11:10 ` How to create random characters? Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.53.1071403922.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-15  8:07   ` Joakim Hove
2003-12-15  8:46     ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-18  9:22 ` Brad Collins
     [not found] ` <mailman.242.1071742690.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-18 10:32   ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-12-18 17:30     ` Brad Collins
     [not found]     ` <mailman.280.1071771962.868.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-18 18:30       ` Harald Maier
2003-12-18 18:31       ` Kai Grossjohann

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