Looking at this, though, I don't see any indication that randomness is
guaranteed which might become a problem if these values are being used
for IDs. Ken, is there any reason you can't just use a UUID?
On 4/6/06, Andy Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a function that I wrote for this very purpose.
>
> <cfscript>
> /**
> * Returns a random hexadecimal color
> * @return Returns a string.
> * @author andy matthews ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> * @version 1, 7/22/2005
> */
>
> function randomHexColor() {
> var chars = "0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,c,d,e,f";
> var totalChars = 6;
> var hexCode = '';
>
> for ( step=1;step LTE totalChars; step = step + 1) {
> hexCode = hexCode &
> ListGetAt(chars,RandRange(1,ListLen(chars)));
> }
> return hexCode;
> }
> </cfscript>
>
> <!----------------//------
> andy matthews
> web developer
> ICGLink, Inc.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 615.370.1530 x737
> --------------//--------->
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Fused [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 9:47 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Creating Random HEX values
>
>
> I need to create random six digit Hex values for a assigning unique,
> non-sequential values as IDs.
>
> I would prefer not to use zeros. Althought I could replace o(ohs) with
> 0(zeros) when the number is manually entered back into the system.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
>
>
>
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