in reply to Generating alphanumeric codes

What for? Why? Usage? Rationale? Random, sequential, unique, un-guessable?????? This takes only a couple of seconds.... 

# usage perl $0 > out.txt
$a = 'blah';
printf "%09s\n", $a++ for 1..1_500_000;

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cheers

tachyon

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