Title: How to create a random password
Question: You need Passwords in your application
Answer:
Create a Form1 with this Objects
Edit1 with Edit1.Text := 13 max. Password lentgth
Edit2 to display created passwords
Button1 with onClick event Button1Click
// this function creates a random password
function RandomPwd(PWLen: integer): string;
// Table of allowed password chars
const XTable: string =
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMabcdefghijklm0123456789' +
'NOPQRSTUVWXYZnopqrstuvwxyz';
var
N, X, Y: integer;
begin
N := 0;
Y := Length(XTable);
// first check the wanted password length
// if it greater than the table-length then
// ignore it because it produces a endless loop!
if (PWLen Y) then begin
ShowMessage('Passwort-Length too big (max. ' + IntToStr(Y) + ')');
exit;
end;
// now set the length of result
SetLength(result, PWLen);
// go to the while loop until all random chars are generated
while N // generate the next random char
X := Random(Y) + 1;
// look if this char not exists in the result
if (pos(XTable[X], result) = 0) then begin
// it's a new char. Count it and put it into the result.
inc(N);
Result[N] := XTable[X];
end;
end;
end;
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
// start the random password generating
Edit2.Text := RandomPwd(StrToInt(Edit1.Text));
end;
Kurt