Re: Re: rand_str

> >Implementing something that has NOT that limitation, is far less trivial. > > function str_rand($len = 8, $class = 'a-zA-Z1-9') > { > static $init = 1; > if(1 == $init){ > mt_srand((double) microtime() * 1000000); > $init = 0; > } > $chars = array(); > for($i = 0; $i < $len; $i++){ > $chars[] = chr(mt_rand(0,255)); > } > return implode('', > preg_grep('|['.preg_quote($class).']|',$chars)); > } > > Just a little bit different syntax for the second argument. > What's the big deal? :) Okay, but hey, you're a PHP-expert with probably many years of experience... By the way, your function won't return strings of length $len... ;) And you could say that preg_grep is quite a hack. Anyway, this didn't convince me it's trivial... I'm sorry. > >Better suggestions? Simple length and a list of characters... and the > >list-of-characters way is also in addcslashes, and the trims. Jeroen