generate random string code example

Example 1: javascript get random string

function getRandomString(length) {
    var randomChars = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789';
    var result = '';
    for ( var i = 0; i < length; i++ ) {
        result += randomChars.charAt(Math.floor(Math.random() * randomChars.length));
    }
    return result;
}

//usage: getRandomString(20); // pass desired length of random string

Example 2: generate random string python

import string
import random

length=5
#python2
randomstr = ''.join(random.sample(string.ascii_letters+string.digits,length))


#python3
randomstr = ''.join(random.choices(string.ascii_letters+string.digits,k=length))

Example 3: javascript generate random array

//This example is to generate an array with 40 random elements, with random values from 0 to 39 

for (var a=[],i=0;i<40;++i) a[i]=i;

// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/962802#962890
function shuffle(array) {
  var tmp, current, top = array.length;
  if(top) while(--top) {
    current = Math.floor(Math.random() * (top + 1));
    tmp = array[current];
    array[current] = array[top];
    array[top] = tmp;
  }
  return array;
}

a = shuffle(a);

Example 4: A random character from a string of characters:

String chars = "abcxyz";
Random rnd = new Random();
char c = chars.charAt(rnd.nextInt(chars.length()));