Misc.Random

Provides - Misc.Random.string() alias to Random.string(8) - Misc.Random.string( length ): returns random string with characters - Misc.Random.number() alias to Random.number(8) - Misc.Random.number( length ): returns random number with digits.

This is intended to provide shorthands to generate random temporary file names, unimportant validation codes and stuff like that.

Notes

Strings will only contain a-z, A-Z and 0-9 characters and will always start with a character.

Numbers may be shorter than length. (Due to possible start with 0)

The whole thing relies on Erlang's random:uniform/1 - I don't know if this is a secure PRNG or not, so better do not use this module for security stuff.

Motivation

1. Detects OTP version and uses :random.seed or :rand.seed with either :erlang.now or :erlang.monotonic_time as both the rand module and using erland.now got deprecated in OTP 17 and 18.

2. I use it all the time.

License

MIT