debian man page for string::random

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Section: 3pm

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String::Random(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				       String::Random(3pm)

NAME
String::Random - Perl module to generate random strings based on a pattern
SYNOPSIS
use String::Random; $foo = new String::Random; print $foo->randregex('ddd'); # Prints 3 random digits print $foo->randpattern("..."); # Prints 3 random printable characters or use String::Random qw(random_regex random_string); print random_regex('ddd'); # Also prints 3 random digits print random_string("..."); # Also prints 3 random printable characters
DESCRIPTION
This module makes it trivial to generate random strings. As an example, let's say you are writing a script that needs to generate a random password for a user. The relevant code might look something like this: use String::Random; $pass = new String::Random; print "Your password is ", $pass->randpattern("CCcc!ccn"), " "; This would output something like this: Your password is UDwp$tj5 If you are more comfortable dealing with regular expressions, the following code would have a similar result: use String::Random; $pass = new String::Random; print "Your password is ", $pass->randregex('[A-Z]{2}[a-z]{2}.[a-z]{2}d'), " "; Patterns The pre-defined patterns (for use with "randpattern()" and "random_pattern()") are as follows: c Any lowercase character [a-z] C Any uppercase character [A-Z] n Any digit [0-9] ! A punctuation character [~`!@$%^&*()-_+={}[]|:;"'.<>?/#,] . Any of the above s A "salt" character [A-Za-z0-9./] b Any binary data These can be modified, but if you need a different pattern it is better to create another pattern, possibly using one of the pre-defined as a base. For example, if you wanted a pattern "A" that contained all upper and lower case letters ("[A-Za-z]"), the following would work: $foo = new String::Random; $foo->{'A'} = [ 'A'..'Z', 'a'..'z' ]; or $foo = new String::Random; $foo->{'A'} = [ @{$foo->{'C'}}, @{$foo->{'c'}} ]; The random_string function, described below, has an alternative interface for adding patterns. Methods new new max => number Create a new String::Random object. Optionally a parameter "max" can be included to specify the maximum number of characters to return for "*" and other regular expression patters that don't return a fixed number of characters. randpattern LIST The randpattern method returns a random string based on the concatenation of all the pattern strings in the list. It will return a list of random strings corresponding to the pattern strings when used in list context. randregex LIST The randregex method returns a random string that will match the regular expression passed in the list argument. Please note that the arguments to randregex are not real regular expressions. Only a small subset of regular expression syntax is actually supported. So far, the following regular expression elements are supported: w Alphanumeric + "_". d Digits. W Printable characters other than those in w. D Printable characters other than those in d. . Printable characters. [] Character classes. {} Repetition. * Same as {0,}. ? Same as {0,1}. + Same as {1,}. Regular expression support is still somewhat incomplete. Currently special characters inside [] are not supported (with the exception of "-" to denote ranges of characters). The parser doesn't care for spaces in the "regular expression" either. Functions random_string PATTERN,LIST random_string PATTERN When called with a single scalar argument, random_string returns a random string using that scalar as a pattern. Optionally, references to lists containing other patterns can be passed to the function. Those lists will be used for 0 through 9 in the pattern (meaning the maximum number of lists that can be passed is 10). For example, the following code: print random_string("0101", ["a", "b", "c"], ["d", "e", "f"]), " "; would print something like this: cebd
BUGS
This is Bug Free(TM) code. (At least until somebody finds one...)
AUTHOR
Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>
SEE ALSO
perl(1). perl v5.10.0 2009-06-11 String::Random(3pm)
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