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[Dev-C++] random string

[kractor <bar...@co...>]

greetings, i'm pretty much completely new to C++ programming so i'll 
apologize in advance if this is a silly question ...

working on a small app for myself, and a portion of that app requires 
the generation of an "id" string that will be used in a database lookup 
table. i've been trying to think of how this might best be handled, and 
the idea that seems to make the most sense so far is to have the program 
generate a "random" string of alpha-numeric characters.

was wondering if anyone might be able to point me towards any 
documentation that might help me with this, or had any better ideas / 
advice they could give ... would be greatly appreciated.

Re: [Dev-C++] random string

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

You could use a UUID - it is guaranteed to be unique even if multiple
computers connect and insert at the same time.

However, a lot of databases can generate your ID (or at least a
sequential numeric value) themselves.

/Per W

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, kractor wrote:

> greetings, i'm pretty much completely new to C++ programming so i'll
> apologize in advance if this is a silly question ...
>
> working on a small app for myself, and a portion of that app requires
> the generation of an "id" string that will be used in a database lookup
> table. i've been trying to think of how this might best be handled, and
> the idea that seems to make the most sense so far is to have the program
> generate a "random" string of alpha-numeric characters.
>
> was wondering if anyone might be able to point me towards any
> documentation that might help me with this, or had any better ideas /
> advice they could give ... would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
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