Re: TIMTOWTDI Challenge: Create a filename

in reply to TIMTOWTDI Challenge: Create a filename

Assuming a quick-and-dirty temporary filename is desired:

my $filename = int rand 2**31;
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Or pick a large random number of your choice. Plus if you need to generate the *same* temporary filenames on successive runs, you can set the seed for rand() ahead of time.

Similar in nature, but random alphanumerics, not unlike what File::Temp does internally:

my @chars = ('a' .. 'z', 'A' .. 'Z'); 
my $filename = join("", map { $chars[int rand(0+@chars)] } 0 .. 7);
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-xdg

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