Hi monks,

I've got the need to generate a psuedo-random 8-character string. This is what I coded up:

my $string;
for (0..7) { $string .= chr( int(rand(25) + 65) ); }

print "$string\n";
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This works, but I suspect it isn't the best way to do it. As you can tell, it only returns uppercase letters ("A" .. "Z"). Is there a better way to go about this?

Many thanks,
ibanix

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