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Hi,

I would like a "gererate password" button that fills a filed with an alphanumeric passwrod of 8 characters or so.  Wildcard characters would be good as well.  Can anyone help me with a script that can create random passwords?  Also - I understand it may not be truly random as a response duplicated could be created every 1,233,432 times or whatever and thats OK  It would be random enought.  Thanks much.

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//strPassword.substr(), created some problems... somehow it could return more than one character at a time.... I don't know why but that was the problem for duplicates... so I changed it for charAt()

//Also sometimes it was possible you could only have 6 or 7 length instead of 8 all the time... I had to add (i--;) if boChar was true

//Now it should work perfectly fine!

var strPassword = "";

//Set up the length of the password

var intLength = 8;

for (var i = 0; i < intLength; i++){

          var random = Math.floor(Math.random() * 150);

          if ((random >= 35 && random <= 38) || (random == 33)|| (random == 42) || (random == 95) || (random >= 48 && random <= 57) || (random >= 63 && random <= 78)|| (random >= 80 && random <= 91) || (random == 93) || (random >=97 && random <= 110) || (random >=112 && random <= 122)){ //Insert your password in the string var

              //Store character in value 

        var strChar = String.fromCharCode(random);

        //Character is initially not contained in the string

        var boChar = false;

        for (var z = 0; z < strPassword.length; z++){

                  if (strPassword.charAt(z) == strChar){

                     //The character is contained in the string, value is now true

               boChar = true;

           }

        } 

        if (!boChar){

                  //If character is not contained in the string, the character is added to the string, otherwise it is not added

           strPassword += strChar;

        } else {

                              i--;

        }

          } else{

              i--;

    }

}

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Just like any other language, you can create a random string based on the ASCII Table! Using random numbers to generate random characters...

var strPassword = "";

//Set up the length of the password

var intLength = 15;

for (var i = 0; i < intLength; i++){

  //Math.Random(); returns a random number between 0 and 1

          var random = Math.floor(Math.random() * 150);

   //make sure random is a good character for your password

          if ((random >= 48 && random <= 57) || (random >= 65 && random <= 90) || (random >=97 && random <= 122)){ //Insert your password in the string var

                    strPassword += String.fromCharCode(random);

          } else{

                    i--;//if the number is not generated between the specified character above, reduce "i" value by one to have a password as long as the length specified

          }

}

xfa.host.messageBox(strPassword);

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Wow that was great - took me a little while to figure out the ascii table worked.  I added some wild cards.  This    var random = Math.floor(Math.random() * 150);  I don't really get to be honest, but it works.  Any explination would be enlighting.

Ok - attempt to complicate this one step further.  Is there a way to prevent charcters from repeating?

Magus - thanks so much for your help.

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Math.floor(); method returns a decimal value to the lowest value,

so (Math.floor(6.34) = 6) & (Math.floor(6.78) = 6)

Math.random(); method returns a decimal value between 0 & 1

the decimal value can be 0.642512573 or 0.2346572 or 0.85673 (randomly generated)

Multiplying this number by 150 return a minimum of Math.floor(0.0000001 * 150 ) =  0 -> to  Math.floor(0.999999 * 150) = 149

by increasing the number 150 you can use more characters in the ASCII table and can have more chances to have random characters, I used it only as an exemple

if you want to make sure different characters can be used, you can use a contain method to look if the character exists in the password

for (var i = 0; i < intLength; i++){

          var random = Math.floor(Math.random() * 150);

          if ((random >= 48 && random <= 57) || (random >= 65 && random <= 90) || (random >=97 && random <= 122)){

               //Store character in value    

               var strChar = String.fromCharCode(random);

               //Character is initially not contained in the string

               var boChar = false;

               for (var z = 0; z < strValue.length; z++){

                   if (strValue.substr(z, z + 1) == strChar){

                         //The character is contained in the string, value is now true

                             boChar = true;

                   }

               }              

               if (!boChar){

                   //If character is not contained in the string, the character is added to the string, otherwise it is not added

                   strPassword += strChar;

               }

          } else{

                    i--;

          }

}

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Thanks very much for the explination - it makes sense.

I must be doing something wrong - here is my script with the "check for duplicate", but it will not fire.

var strPassword = "";

//Set up the length of the password

var intLength = 15;

for (var i = 0; i < intLength; i++){

          var random = Math.floor(Math.random() * 150);

          if ((random >= 48 && random <= 57) || (random >= 65 && random <= 90) || (random >=97 && random <= 122)){

               //Store character in value   

               var strChar = String.fromCharCode(random);

               //Character is initially not contained in the string

               var boChar = false;

               for (var z = 0; z < strValue.length; z++){

                   if (strValue.substr(z, z + 1) == strChar){

                         //The character is contained in the string, value is now true

                             boChar = true;

                   }

               }             

               if (!boChar){

                   //If character is not contained in the string, the character is added to the string, otherwise it is not added

                   strPassword += strChar;

               }

          } else{

                    i--;

          }

}

xfa.host.messageBox(strPassword);

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Yea I made an error in the code, strValue is suppose to be strPassword

for (var z = 0; z < strPassword.length; z++){

                   if (strPassword.substr(z, z + 1) == strChar){

                         //The character is contained in the string, value is now true

                             boChar = true;

                   }

               }   

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Perahps I spoke to soon - I am still getting duplicates in the response.

Below is my total script which populates a text filed on a button click.  -  Sorry to ping back on this, but it is very close.  any ideas?

var strPassword = "";

//Set up the length of the password

var intLength = 8;

for (var i = 0; i < intLength; i++){

          var random = Math.floor(Math.random() * 150);

          if ((random >= 35 && random <= 38) || (random == 33)|| (random == 42) || (random == 95) || (random >= 48 && random <= 57) || (random >= 63 && random <= 78)|| (random >= 80 && random <= 93) || (random >=97 && random <= 110) || (random >=112 && random <= 122)){ //Insert your password in the string var

               //Store character in value  

               var strChar = String.fromCharCode(random);

               //Character is initially not contained in the string

               var boChar = false;

               for (var z = 0; z < strPassword.length; z++){

                   if (strPassword.substr(z, z + 1) == strChar){

                         //The character is contained in the string, value is now true

                             boChar = true;

                   }

               }  

                        

               if (!boChar){

                   //If character is not contained in the string, the character is added to the string, otherwise it is not added

                   strPassword += strChar;

               }

          } else{

                    i--;

          }

}

strPasswordTxtNO.rawValue = strPassword;

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//strPassword.substr(), created some problems... somehow it could return more than one character at a time.... I don't know why but that was the problem for duplicates... so I changed it for charAt()

//Also sometimes it was possible you could only have 6 or 7 length instead of 8 all the time... I had to add (i--;) if boChar was true

//Now it should work perfectly fine!

var strPassword = "";

//Set up the length of the password

var intLength = 8;

for (var i = 0; i < intLength; i++){

          var random = Math.floor(Math.random() * 150);

          if ((random >= 35 && random <= 38) || (random == 33)|| (random == 42) || (random == 95) || (random >= 48 && random <= 57) || (random >= 63 && random <= 78)|| (random >= 80 && random <= 91) || (random == 93) || (random >=97 && random <= 110) || (random >=112 && random <= 122)){ //Insert your password in the string var

              //Store character in value 

        var strChar = String.fromCharCode(random);

        //Character is initially not contained in the string

        var boChar = false;

        for (var z = 0; z < strPassword.length; z++){

                  if (strPassword.charAt(z) == strChar){

                     //The character is contained in the string, value is now true

               boChar = true;

           }

        } 

        if (!boChar){

                  //If character is not contained in the string, the character is added to the string, otherwise it is not added

           strPassword += strChar;

        } else {

                              i--;

        }

          } else{

              i--;

    }

}

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Perfect - thanks so much.  I hope this exercise will help others.