This might be faster because it doesn't have all of the checks for the range of acceptable chars. It precalculates the acceptable chars and stores them in an array in a closure so it only has to calculate and store once. You can adjust the chars that you want acceptable by changing the the assignment in the closure.

{
my @password_chars = ( 0..9,A..Z,a..z );  # acceptable chars
sub Pass {
    my $password = '';
    for ( 1..8 ) {
        $password .= $password_chars[rand(@password_chars)];
    }
    return $password;
}
}

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T.R. Fullhart, kayos@kayos.org

In reply to RE: Quicky password sub by kayos
in thread Quicky password sub by halxd2

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