Looking For A Simple, Command-Line Random String Generator Tool

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Hi everyone,

Does anyone here have, or has anyone here ever written, a simple command-line Win32 tool that can generate a random string that has switches for:
- string length
- character type (number, lower-case letters, upper-case letters)
- number of strings to generate

I spent some time searching GitHub and Stack Overflow but couldn't find anything simple like this.

In my case, I need to generate 200 4-character long strings only using numbers.

Any help would be great!

[Gotty]

Do you have MS Excel?
Do this 200 times (like in cells A1..A200):

=RIGHT("0000"&INT(RAND()*10000);4)

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​That's a very clever technique Gotty. Unfortunately, it does not work in my old version of Excel.

Thanks nevertheless.

[Gotty]

How old your Excel is? Not older than Excel 97, right? That would be reeeeally old.
Or is your Excel non-English? The formula names would be different then.
Let me attach 3 working versions.
Can you open any of them?

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How old your Excel is? Not older than Excel 97, right? That would be reeeeally old.
Or is your Excel non-English? The formula names would be different then.
Let me attach 3 working versions.
Can you open any of them?

Ah there we go. Yes, your Excel spreadsheets work perfectly.

I also looked at the formula in cell A1 and copied it from there. That seemed to work. So probably I copied your formula in your previous post incorrectly...My mistake!

Thanks for helping Gotty! This was very helpful!

[Gotty]

I'm glad it worked out.

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I still think a simple command-line tool that allows for specifying string length, numbers/uppercase/lowercase, number of total strings would be ideal to have on hand.

This particular situation was solved with Excel but when we need to combine letters and numbers, does Excel allow for this?

Thanks.

[Gotty]

Yepp.
Excel is a universal programming environment for data processing