Re: Re: rand_str

> >> and it is extremely easy to implement in > >> userland: > > > >That is not true, > > So how about this? > > function str_rand($len=8) > { > $retval = strtr(md5(microtime()), chr(0x30), chr(0x4F)); > return substr($retval,0,$len); > } > > for($i=0; $i<10; $i++){ > echo str_rand(), "\n"; > } I find rand_str($len , "1..9a..f\x4F") easier... ;-) And this is still yielding exactly 16 differerent characters. As you saw for yourself, it is not trivial to implement something like this in userland. For example str_pad is way easier to implement, only some playing with str_repeat. Are there any objections if I implement this? Are you still against this new function? Jeroen