Chas. Owens wrote:
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:01, John W. Krahn<jwkr...@shaw.ca> wrote:
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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.
That does not make sense.
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I believe he/she meant that not every character is allowed in a regex,
But... every character *is* allowed in a regex.
so you can't just generate a random string made up of any characters.
You must use a restricted character set.
Yes, but, you can use any number of encoding schemes to translate "any
character" to an "unrestricted character".
John
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