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Re: Random Alpha String

Do you wany it to be random or unique?

If you want it to be unique then the best way is to keep a counter and increment it. It's also the simplist.

Albert

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Loeber" <rich@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Random Alpha String
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:20:50 -0400


Does anyone have a technique for generating a random alpha string. I want
to randomly generate a data area name and I don't want to use numerics if
that can be avoided.

Rich Loeber
Kisco Information Systems
http://www.kisco.com

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