On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 05:12, Ed Avis<e...@waniasset.com> wrote:
> sys adm <sysadm <at> computermail.net> writes:
>
>>1. why perl doesn't have a built-in strip() function?
>>each time I need to say $var =~ s/^\s+|\s+//g to strip
>
> Good question. Perl 6 is fixing this by adding a 'trim' operator.
> The code I use is
>
> for ($var) { s/\A\s+//; s/\s+\z/ }
>
>>2. what's the standard module or method to generate a random string, for
>>example
>>the string will be used as part of url.
>
> If you want to use the string in a URL then it cannot be truly random, because
> not every character can appear in a URL. Why not just generate a random
> number
> and use that as the string?
snip
One common method is to generate a random number and then encode that
number in base 16 or 64:
my $randstr = sprintf "%08x", int rand 2**32;
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