how to generate random alphanmueric charatcers

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hi please help me to how generate alphanumeric strings/code as its done by some website in forget password type situation . where generated strings/character is shipped to concerned person.any links to tutorial/videos would be hepfull

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Posted 21-Feb-12 19:23pm

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Ganesan Senthilvel · Answer 1 · 2012-02-21T19:27:00

In .NET, we can generate random alphanumeric characters using LInQ

C#

var charList = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789";
var randomNum = new Random();
var result = new string(
    Enumerable.Repeat(charList, 8)
              .Select(s => s[randomNum.Next(s.Length)])
              .ToArray());

RDBurmon · Answer 2 · 2012-02-21T19:28:00

Solution 2

http://www.obviex.com/Samples/Password.aspx[^]

Hope this helps if yes then accept and vote the answer .
--Rahul D.

Posted 21-Feb-12 19:28pm

RDBurmon

Jaganathan Bantheswaran · Answer 3 · 2012-02-21T19:32:00

Solution 3

Hi,

Look at the posts,

http://codeasp.net/blogs/raghav_khunger/microsoft-net/1720/c-generate-n-digit-random-alphanumeric-string[^]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1122483/c-sharp-random-string-generator[^]

Posted 21-Feb-12 19:32pm

Jaganathan Bantheswaran

AmitKumar89 · Answer 4 · 2012-02-21T19:36:00

Just try this:

C#

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string charList = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789";
            var randomNum = new Random();
            string result = new string(
                Enumerable.Repeat(charList, 30)
                          .Select(s => s[randomNum.Next(s.Length)])
                          .ToArray());
            Console.WriteLine(result);
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

Mukund Thakker · Answer 5 · 2012-02-22T01:38:00

JavaScript

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
        function GetString(txtCode) {
            document.getElementById(txtCode).value = RamdomString(10);
            return false;
        }
        //Random String Generator//
        function RamdomString(intLen) {
            var strRet = "";
            var iCntr = 0;
            var rndNo = 0;
            var arrCharacters = new Array("A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G", "H", "I", "J", "K", "L", "M", "N", "O", "P", "Q", "R", "S", "T", "U", "V", "W", "X", "Y", "Z", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "0", "a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j", "k", "l", "m", "n", "o", "p", "q", "r", "s", "t", "u", "v", "w", "x", "y", "z");
            for (iCntr = 0; iCntr < intLen; iCntr++) {
                rndNo = Math.floor((61 - 1 + 1) * Math.random() + 1);
                strRet = strRet + arrCharacters[rndNo];
            }
            return strRet;
        }
    </script>

johannesnestler · Answer 6 · 2012-02-22T05:35:00

Another one (No Linq, uses StringBuilder)

C#

public static string GetRandomString(char[] achCharacters, int iLength, Random rand)
{
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(iLength);
    for (int i = 0; i < iLength; i++)
        sb.Append(achCharacters[rand.Next(0, achCharacters.Length)]);
    return sb.ToString();
}

Example Usage:

C#

string strUsableChars = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890!\"§$%&/()=?";
            Random rand = new Random();
            string strRandom = GetRandomString(strUsableChars.ToCharArray(), 10, rand);

Why inject Random-instance from outside?
- If I'd create it inside the function, fast successive calls could yield the same strings.

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