Generating 250,000 random codes
 

Has anyone got any suggestions on software to generate a quarter of a million random codes? Bit of a tight deadline so I don't have time to do the usual auditing of software.

I liked the part where you posted the requirements for the codes.

5 star thread, will print it and save it to read it to my grandchildren

I was presuming the software suggested would have options for what characters to omit, what prefixes to use, number of characters etc.

It wasn't a trick question. I really do want to know about some software that can generate a lot of random codes, I promise.

for (int i=1,i=500000,++i)
{
srand(1);
cout

qbasic

[quote]for (int i=1,i=500000,++i)
{
srand(1);
cout

For quick and dirty results you could run this a few times.

http://www.random.org/strings/

Sure, not quite as fancy as you need but free and easy.

Cheers, but the likelyhood is that some codes wouldn't be unique.

I appreciate that but the database you make out of it could deduplicate it for you.

yep.

just run this from a server, save the output, deduplicate in dbase (or spreadsheet, whatever)

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• in $chars enter the characters you wish to use in the codes.
• in $code_length enter the length for each string
• run the PHP file from a server, save the contents, import into dbase and deduplicate.

All good suggestions, but we really need some commercial software so that any of the account managers running a promotion can generate a set of codes that meet client approval without having to interrupt a developer. It doesn't sound like a big hassle, but it will more efficient.

C#:
Code: Documentation:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...m.guid.newguid
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/97af8hh4