in reply to Random Text: There's got to be an easier way
Here's another way to generate an 8 character string, containing characters in the ranges 2-9 and a-z, using the CPAN module String::Random:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use String::Random; my $string_random = String::Random->new; print $string_random->randregex('[a-z2-9]' x 8);
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