Arrays loops and functions

[Mintz]

I have the following function, its not done, but my first case statement is bring up some problems.

I want array $l to have $n elements, and the current element should be element $x which changers per loop. so when the whole loop is done i should have an array with $n amount of random letters but autoit is not accepting $l[$x] = etc...

all elements in $l are equal to 0

can someone shed some light on this, and or tell me what i'm doing wrong? thanks

Randomcreate(7)
Func Randomcreate($Lvl, $numbers = 0, $caps = 0, $symbols = 0)

    Select
    case $numbers = 0 and $caps = 0 and $symbols = 0
    $n = $lvl
    $x = 0
        dim $l[$n]
    while $x <> $n
        $l[$x] = Random(Chr("a"), chr("z"), 1)
        $x = $x + 1
    WEnd
    Return $l[0]&$l[2]
EndSelect
EndFunc

[martin]

I have the following function, its not done, but my first case statement is bring up some problems.

I want array $l to have $n elements, and the current element should be element $x which changers per loop. so when the whole loop is done i should have an array with $n amount of random letters but autoit is not accepting $l[$x] = etc...

all elements in $l are equal to 0

can someone shed some light on this, and or tell me what i'm doing wrong? thanks

Randomcreate(7)
Func Randomcreate($Lvl, $numbers = 0, $caps = 0, $symbols = 0)

    Select
    case $numbers = 0 and $caps = 0 and $symbols = 0
    $n = $lvl
    $x = 0
        dim $l[$n]
    while $x <> $n
        $l[$x] = Random(Chr("a"), chr("z"), 1)
        $x = $x + 1
    WEnd
    Return $l[0]&$l[2]
EndSelect
EndFunc

You are using Chr("a") but maybe you mean Asc("a") - see help.

How are you seeing what the elements in $l are? You have declared $l inside the function which means it will be a local variable and not seen outside. You need to declare it as Global and refer to it in the function, or even better, pass it to the function using ByRef.

[Siao]

$l[$x] = Chr(Random(Asc("a"), Asc("z"), 1))

[Mintz]

$l[$x] = Chr(Random(Asc("a"), Asc("z"), 1))

Oh!! ok thanks its working exactly how i need it

[FreeFry]

Hi, this remebered me of an old funciton I created that I call "_RandomizeStr", it's basically a function that can be used for creating a random string, with a Prefix and Suffix if wanted, I'll post it here, if you wanna try it out:

$i_Lenght is the lenght of the string

$i_Mode is the mode it will use, first mode (0), is that it randomly creates a new random character on each loop through the string, the second mode (1), is that it creates 3 random chars(small letter, big letter, and a number), and randomly creates the string with those set characters

$s_Prefix, is optional, it takes a string, and adds that in front of the randomized string, same with $s_Suffix, but after the randomized string.

This is a quite good function to create quick and (quite) secure passwords, etc.

Func _RandomizeStr($i_Lenght, $i_Mode = 0, $s_Prefix = "", $s_Suffix = "")
    
    Local $s_Ret
    Local $a_RandomChars[3]
    
    If $i_Mode = 0 Then
        
        For $i = 1 To $i_Lenght
            
            $a_RandomChars[0] = Random(48, 57, 1)
            $a_RandomChars[1] = Random(97, 122, 1)
            $a_RandomChars[2] = Random(65, 90, 1)
            
            $s_Ret &= Chr($a_RandomChars[Random(0, 2, 1)])
            
        Next
        
    ElseIf $i_Mode = 1 Then
        
        $a_RandomChars[0] = Random(48, 57, 1)
        $a_RandomChars[1] = Random(97, 122, 1)
        $a_RandomChars[2] = Random(65, 90, 1)
        
        For $i = 1 To $i_Lenght
            
            $s_Ret &= Chr($a_RandomChars[Random(0, 2, 1)])
            
        Next
        
    EndIf
    
    Return $s_Prefix & $s_Ret & $s_Suffix

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