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vds_noob2003 · Newbie Joined: 29 Dec 2002 Posts: 3

I'm really confused. I was sitting here, playing with this neat new language,
feeling all proud of myself for the stupid little programs I made, when I
came to a problem. I thought "Hey, can I make something randomly
generate 12 characters/numbers and assign a variable to it?"

Well,
I've been sitting here for like ever now and I can't seem to figure it
out...any suggestions would be VERY welcome.

In advance,
Thanks from a very confused VDS newbie

SnarlingSheep · Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2003 6:37 am Post subject:

Welcome to VDS.
Hopefully I understand what you mean, if so this is pretty simple.
%%RangeA and B hold the ranges for @RANDOM(). I have it between 48 and 90 to generate random characters from 0 to Z, then put them into %%Test using @CHR(). For example if @RANDOM() comes up with 72(alt+072) it would put "H" as one of the characters.
Let me know if it's not what you were looking for.

Tsunami1988 · Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2003 10:51 am Post subject:

ShinobiSoft · Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2003 11:11 am Post subject:

Actually @random() and RANDOM are a function/command for VDS 4, but
can be obtained for previous version of VDS with the vdsrnd16.dll. I
beleive there is also a vdsrnd32.dll.

Tsunami1988 · Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2003 11:18 am Post subject:

Dr. Dread · Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2003 11:39 am Post subject:

Once upon a time I did a random password generator - pure VDS, no DLLs. It runs in VDS 3 also
and can be tweaked to pick random characters from a list of available chars.

It's posted here:
http://www.vdsworld.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=125

Greetz
Dr. Dread

vds_noob2003 · Newbie Joined: 29 Dec 2002 Posts: 3

I'm still not sure of everything. Why did you choose 48 and 90 as your ranges?? And that @CHR in there confuses me further, lol. Can I make it simpler for myself? How about randomly generating just ONE character, lol. Would the code look like...

%%RangeA = 48
%%RangeB = 90
%%Test = @CHR(@RANDOM(%%RangeA,%%RangeB))

That? Hehe...I think the only parts I don't understand are the numbers 48 and 90, and the @CHR stuck in there. If you could explain that and help me, I would appreciate it SO much!!!!

Once again,
Thanks in advance from a less confused newbie to VDS Very Happy

ShinobiSoft · Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2003 7:00 am Post subject:

48 and 90 are character codes. @chr() converts the character codes to
ascii text. For example, @chr(90) is the letter Z. For his example, he's
using numbers 1 thru 0 and characters A thru Z.

SnarlingSheep · Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2003 8:45 am Post subject:

To hopefully help you out a bit more, open a text editor, like Notepad, hold your alt key and on the keypad(on the right of the keyboard) hit 0 then 1 then 6 then 9 and let go of alt. That will show "©"
That means the Character Code for the copyright symbol is 169. @CHR() in VDS will turn that Character Code back into regular text.
Try out the code below and see if it helps you, and read through the VDS help file Wink

vds_noob2003 · Newbie Joined: 29 Dec 2002 Posts: 3

Ok, last question, I promise! Smile

Ok, now that I understand how to generate random numbers and place them into a variable, how do I make a random amount of random characters and place them into a variable? That may sound slightly confusing (atleast to me, lol), so I'll rephrase it. Remember how earlier I wondered if you could take like a certain amount of characters, generate them randomly, and place them into a variable? it's the same, except instead of 14 characters I want to randomly generate to put into a variable, I want to generate a random amount of characters (within reason, like 1-300 characters) and do the same thing we did before.

Tsunami1988 · Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2003 8:44 pm Post subject: Re: Gotcha! Buuuut....

SnarlingSheep · Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2003 9:13 pm Post subject:

I think this is what you want.