Well, I correct my original statement. I didn't intend for this to be used as a login or user id, but literally as a random hex value: http://www.andyandjaime.com/uploads/am.cfm
<!----------------//------ andy matthews web developer ICGLink, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 615.370.1530 x737 --------------//---------> -----Original Message----- From: Rob Wilkerson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 10:02 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Creating Random HEX values Looking at this, though, I don't see any indication that randomness is guaranteed which might become a problem if these values are being used for IDs. Ken, is there any reason you can't just use a UUID? On 4/6/06, Andy Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a function that I wrote for this very purpose. > > <cfscript> > /** > * Returns a random hexadecimal color > * @return Returns a string. > * @author andy matthews ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > * @version 1, 7/22/2005 > */ > > function randomHexColor() { > var chars = "0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,c,d,e,f"; > var totalChars = 6; > var hexCode = ''; > > for ( step=1;step LTE totalChars; step = step + 1) { > hexCode = hexCode & ListGetAt(chars,RandRange(1,ListLen(chars))); > } > return hexCode; > } > </cfscript> > > <!----------------//------ > andy matthews > web developer > ICGLink, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 615.370.1530 x737 > --------------//---------> > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Fused [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 9:47 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Creating Random HEX values > > > I need to create random six digit Hex values for a assigning unique, > non-sequential values as IDs. > > I would prefer not to use zeros. Althought I could replace o(ohs) with > 0(zeros) when the number is manually entered back into the system. > > Any ideas? > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:237102 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
