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.