RE: RE: Create encrypted passwords

Better still:

$salt = join '', ('a'..'z','A'..'Z',0..9,'.','/')[rand 64, rand 64] ;
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-Ducky

Update: Ok, took me a year to come back and fix this, but it's fixed the way I'd do it today. =/

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RE: RE: RE: Create encrypted passwords by btrott (Parson) on Mar 28, 2000 at 23:50 UTC
That doesn't work. You're taking an array slice (incorrectly), then assigning it to a scalar variable. You want something like this: `my @chars = ('a'..'z', 'A'..'Z', 0..9, '.', '/'); my $salt = join '', @chars[rand @chars, rand @chars];` [download] Note the "@" before "chars"--that denotes an array slice. And since we're taking an array slice and want to end up with a scalar, we need to do a join.	[reply] [d/l]
RE: RE: RE: Create encrypted passwords by chromatic (Archbishop) on Mar 28, 2000 at 23:42 UTC
What if you want to expand the valid characters someday? `@chars=(a..z,A..Z,0..9,'.','/'); $salt= join '', @chars[rand(@chars), rand(@chars)];` [download] or even `my $elem = @chars; $salt = join '', @chars[rand($elem), rand($elem)];` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]