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NAME

Data::Unixish::randstr - Generate a stream of random strings

VERSION

version 1.44

RELEASE DATE

2014-04-24

SYNOPSIS

In command line:


            

              
              
% dux randstr
trWFSsAwZH4Cli90
% dux randstr --min-len 1 --max-len 5 --charset AZ -n 5
WXY
KQDCG
MGS
QMEH
JDOCK

FUNCTIONS

randstr(%args) -> [status, msg, result, meta]

Generate a stream of random strings.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

  • charset => str (default: "AZaz09")

    Character set to use.

    az is basic Latin lowercase letters. AZ uppercase letters. AZaz lowercase and uppercase letters. AZaz09 lowercase + uppercase letters + Arabic numbers. 09 numbers.

  • in => any

    Input stream (e.g. array or filehandle).

  • max_len => int (default: 16)

    Maximum possible length (inclusive).

  • min_len => int (default: 16)

    Minimum possible length (inclusive).

  • num => int (default: 1)

    Number of strings to generate, -1 means infinite.

  • out => any

    Output stream (e.g. array or filehandle).

Return value:

Returns an enveloped result (an array).

First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (result) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

TODO

More choices in character sets: full ASCII, Unicode, etc.

Allow users to specify their own charset.

SEE ALSO

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/Data-Unixish.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/sharyanto/perl-Data-Unixish.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Data-Unixish

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

AUTHOR

Steven Haryanto <stevenharyanto@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Steven Haryanto.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.