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#!/usr/bin/perl

$ITER = 20;
my $string = "";
for(my $i = 0; $i != $ITER; $i++) {
        $string = $string."".int(rand(9));
}

print $string;


On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 08:34, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> I want to create session ids to be stored as cookies for use in my PERL
> CGI programs.  The IDs will be store in SQLlite with a key into a table
> that lists all the name value pairs for that session.  What I want to do
> is randomly generate a 64bit number and then convert it into a hex
> string.  This string will be 128 characters long.  I will then set that
> string as the session id in the cookie and insert it into the table.
> 
> What is the best way to generate the number and convert to hex?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
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