From: Lloyd Linklater <lloyd@2live4.com>
Date: 2008-09-18T03:54:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Generating a semi-random, but legal, filename

Daniel Berger wrote:

> For example, my_template_XXXXXX would become my_template_T$#z%Ya

How about this:

def getRandLetter
  65 + rand(26)
end

def randomFileNameSuffix (baseFileName, numberOfRandomchars)
  numberOfRandomchars.times { baseFileName << getRandLetter  }
  baseFileName
end

fn = randomFileNameSuffix("foo_", 7)
puts fn
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