>>>>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.
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>>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.
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>In my case, it did the job. I only used it, sometimes, to give the form a random name. The user will not fire the same fire twice in the same second so this was good so far. I used 'A'+SYS(2) to create the form name.


You can check about Rand() fonction may be you can build what you need with this....