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From
20/07/2001 14:57:29
John Deupree
Long Term Care Authority
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00533282
Message ID:
00533308
Views:
29
OK, I feel like I'm looking at a repeating # problem on an IQ test. I understand the concept, but why multiply by 25 if rand() is even or by 9 if not?

Thanks

John

>FUNCTION GeneratePwd
>LPARAMETERS pnLen && Length of Password - in your case 6
>
>rand(-1)
>LOCAL lcPwd, lnRnd, lnCnt
>
>lcPwd = ""
>FOR lnCnt = 1 TO pnLen
> IF lnCnt = 1 OR mod(int(rand() * 100), 2) = 0 then
> lnRnd = int(rand() * 25) + 97
> ELSE
> lnRnd = int(rand() * 9) + 48
> ENDIF
> lcPwd = lcPwd + chr(lnRnd)
>ENDFOR
>
>RETURN lcPwd
>ENDFUNC
>
>
>HTH,
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