>>Does anyone have a snippet of code that will generate a random, yet unique id of the form
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>>A######, where A=any alpha and #=digit
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>I think SYS(2) will return a unique id.
No, Sys(2) returns the seconds elapsed since midnight...
Your best bet for uniqueness is to implement a counter for both the letter and the number part. If you use randomness there is no guarantee of uniqueness.
Peter Stephens
Visual Records, Inc.
Lead Programmer for the general purpose record keeping system Visual Records. Written primarily in VFP 6.0 with a little C++.
