Michaels suggestion will work but it creates nasty filenames <g>... A couple of things you can do to make that a little cleaener:

Use:

Path.GetTempFileName()

which returns a filename and creates a 0 byte file (which seems lame, but it maps the underlying API call).

You can use Michaels idea and use a Hash on it to make it more managable:

(new Guid()).ToString().GetHashCode().ToString("x");

This will return a hex representation of hte hash that's somewhere around 8 =12 characters long usually.

Actually the Temp API uses something very similar to return filenames.

+++ Rick ---


>Is there a function that will return a unique name? I am looking for something like VFP's SYS(2015) function. I want to generate a unique/random name so I can use it for creating a temporary file used to capture some output.
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>Thanks,
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>Jerry