I quote the variables as they may contain *@%, etc. I figured it was safer. I started with hex as when I used a straight md5 hash, I did not get 4 digit numbers all the time. I don't entirely understand the code I used, but it worked, so I used it. So, that u=included a hash and a checksum. Why do you use '' as a separator in the join when it works without one? Thanks for the code snippets. I researched the modulus some but did not understand it very well, so I opted for a checksum. I'll probably use one in my application. I am sure you would cringe at the rest of my code. For example, I needed to strip both - and \r\n from a string but never managed to do it in one search/replace. So I had to do in on two lines: $data=~ s/\n\r//g; $data=~ s/-//g; Thanks!

In reply to Re^4: Need a wait to generate a 4 digit "PIN" number by jaiello
in thread Need a wait to generate a 4 digit "PIN" number by jaiello

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