RE: [Sheflug] Unique temporary filename

[Barrie Bremner <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxx>]

#!/usr/bin/perl

sub rand_name {
  my $name;
  my  [at] letters = ('A'..'Z', 'a'..'z', '0'..'9');

  for (1 .. $_[0]) {
    $name .= $letters[rand (scalar @letters)];
}

print rand_name(20);

That lot will give you a random 20 character string.

You can always add the process id ($$) and time (localtime).

Cheers.
Baz.

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