Help with random texts

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Trying to test my GUI skills, since I haven't for a LONG time.
So I have a confirmation code that is supposed to come out random from 3 sets of letters/numbers. I have all of those as this.beg, this.mid, this.end and I set up the temp.confCode as follows

PHP Code:

temp.confCode = int(random(this.beg, 11)) @ int(random(this.mid, 9)) @ int(random(this.end, 11)); 


When I go on player and try to use it, the GUI comes up and everything's fine, but it's coming out as numbers.
One example is "035"
How can I get it to display as TEXT?

And on a side note:
How do I set text to save as a log/*.txt file from a serverside script?

[napo_p2p]

If I remember correctly, random(start, end) will only return a random number within [start, end)

It's a bit different to generate a random character. Here's one way to generate a random upper-case letter:

PHP Code:

char(int(random(65, 91))); 


You can look at an ascii table to see where I get the 65 and 91 from. You could also look at an ascii table to get the ranges for lower-case letters.

Or, you could predefine an array of all the characters you want to include in your random strings, then use randomstring().
Example:

PHP Code:

temp.chars = {"A", "B", "C", "D", "a", 1, 2, 3};  //Put all characters in here.
temp.confCode = randomstring(temp.chars) @ randomstring(temp.chars) @ randomstring(temp.chars); 


And, to save as a log/*.txt file you can use savelog2
Example:

PHP Code:

savelog2("snaps.txt", "The boy bought the basketball"); 


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Originally Posted by napo_p2p

If I remember correctly, random(start, end) will only return a random number within [start, end)

It's a bit different to generate a random character. Here's one way to generate a random upper-case letter:

PHP Code:

char(int(random(65, 91))); 


You can look at an ascii table to see where I get the 65 and 91 from. You could also look at an ascii table to get the ranges for lower-case letters.

Or, you could predefine an array of all the characters you want to include in your random strings, then use randomstring().
Example:

PHP Code:

temp.chars = {"A", "B", "C", "D", "a", 1, 2, 3};  //Put all characters in here.
temp.confCode = randomstring(temp.chars) @ randomstring(temp.chars) @ randomstring(temp.chars); 


And, to save as a log/*.txt file you can use savelog2
Example:

PHP Code:

savelog2("snaps.txt", "The boy bought the basketball"); 


Ah, thanks a lot
++rep if i could. gotta spread

edit: I did temp.confCode=randomString(this.beg) etc., and it didn't work.
It shows up as blank in the GUI.

[napo_p2p]

Originally Posted by Switch

edit: I did temp.confCode=randomString(this.beg) etc., and it didn't work.
It shows up as blank in the GUI.

What is in this.beg?

randomstring() takes in an array of strings and outputs a random element.

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PHP Code:

  this.beg = { "iA", "Pq", "oa", "cQ", "Vu", "zC", "Gd", "jE",
    "aT", "fg", "io", "mv" };
  this.mid = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0 };
  this.end = { "io", "vb", "cH", "pA", "oA", "oa", "ua", "Ac",
    "iA", "Co", "Op", "In" }; 


That's all the arrays I'm using.

Edit:
Found the problem!
Had to use thiso.confCode inside of the GuiMLTextCtrl, and put the randomize setter outside of the GUI.

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just so its out there, you can also savelog2 folder types [always give the NPC server additional rights though!]

savelog2("items/hugeasslog.txt", "wurr");
savelog2("staff/xAndrewx", "hot damn");

etc