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Program: How to create random string with random characters?
Description: |
Write a program to generate random string of length 10 charactors. Every time you call the method,
the program should generate random string.
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Code: |
package com.java2novice.random;
import java.util.Random;
public class MyStringRandomGen {
private static final String CHAR_LIST =
"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890";
private static final int RANDOM_STRING_LENGTH = 10;
/**
* This method generates random string
* @return
*/
public String generateRandomString(){
StringBuffer randStr = new StringBuffer();
for(int i=0; i<RANDOM_STRING_LENGTH; i++){
int number = getRandomNumber();
char ch = CHAR_LIST.charAt(number);
randStr.append(ch);
}
return randStr.toString();
}
/**
* This method generates random numbers
* @return int
*/
private int getRandomNumber() {
int randomInt = 0;
Random randomGenerator = new Random();
randomInt = randomGenerator.nextInt(CHAR_LIST.length());
if (randomInt - 1 == -1) {
return randomInt;
} else {
return randomInt - 1;
}
}
public static void main(String a[]){
MyStringRandomGen msr = new MyStringRandomGen();
System.out.println(msr.generateRandomString());
System.out.println(msr.generateRandomString());
System.out.println(msr.generateRandomString());
System.out.println(msr.generateRandomString());
System.out.println(msr.generateRandomString());
System.out.println(msr.generateRandomString());
System.out.println(msr.generateRandomString());
}
}
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Output: |
UdX5PwalMI
qj62F7zuoR
ndJUNiHSlh
YohYpF5MfA
mwX9UhI7Ci
bCn5bsk2em
pzMXQDYaDx
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List of Random class sample programs:- Basic random number generator.
- How to generate random numbers in the given range?
- How to generate same random sequence everytime?
- How to change Random class seed value?
- How to create random string with random characters?
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What is race condition?
A race condition is a situation in which two or more threads or
processes are reading or writing some shared data, and the final
result depends on the timing of how the threads are scheduled.
Race conditions can lead to unpredictable results and subtle
program bugs. A thread can prevent this from happening by locking
an object. When an object is locked by one thread and another
thread tries to call a synchronized method on the same object,
the second thread will block until the object is unlocked.
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
-- Albert Einstein
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