# String::Random - Generates a random string from a pattern
# Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it
# and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
#
# $Id: Random.pm,v 1.4 2006/09/21 17:34:07 steve Exp $
package String::Random;
$String::Random::VERSION = '0.30';
require 5.006_001;
use strict;
use warnings;
use Carp;
use parent qw(Exporter);
our %EXPORT_TAGS = (
'all' => [
qw(
&random_string
&random_regex
)
]
);
our @EXPORT_OK = ( @{ $EXPORT_TAGS{'all'} } );
# These are the various character sets.
my @upper = ( 'A' .. 'Z' );
my @lower = ( 'a' .. 'z' );
my @digit = ( '0' .. '9' );
my @punct = map {chr} ( 33 .. 47, 58 .. 64, 91 .. 96, 123 .. 126 );
my @any = ( @upper, @lower, @digit, @punct );
my @salt = ( @upper, @lower, @digit, '.', '/' );
my @binary = map {chr} ( 0 .. 255 );
# What's important is how they relate to the pattern characters.
# These are the old patterns for randpattern/random_string.
my %old_patterns = (
'C' => [@upper],
'c' => [@lower],
'n' => [@digit],
'!' => [@punct],
'.' => [@any],
's' => [@salt],
'b' => [@binary],
);
# These are the regex-based patterns.
my %patterns = (
# These are the regex-equivalents.
'.' => [@any],
'\d' => [@digit],
'\D' => [ @upper, @lower, @punct ],
'\w' => [ @upper, @lower, @digit, '_' ],
'\W' => [ grep { $_ ne '_' } @punct ],
'\s' => [ q{ }, "\t" ], # Would anything else make sense?
'\S' => [ @upper, @lower, @digit, @punct ],
# These are translated to their double quoted equivalents.
'\t' => ["\t"],
'\n' => ["\n"],
'\r' => ["\r"],
'\f' => ["\f"],
'\a' => ["\a"],
'\e' => ["\e"],
);
# This is used for cache of parsed range patterns in %regch
my %parsed_range_patterns = ();
# These characters are treated specially in randregex().
my %regch = (
'\\' => sub {
my ( $self, $ch, $chars, $string ) = @_;
if ( @{$chars} ) {
my $tmp = shift( @{$chars} );
if ( $tmp eq 'x' ) {
# This is supposed to be a number in hex, so
# there had better be at least 2 characters left.
$tmp = shift( @{$chars} ) . shift( @{$chars} );
push( @{$string}, [ chr( hex($tmp) ) ] );
}
elsif ( $tmp =~ /[0-7]/ ) {
carp 'octal parsing not implemented. treating literally.';
push( @{$string}, [$tmp] );
}
elsif ( defined( $patterns{"\\$tmp"} ) ) {
$ch .= $tmp;
push( @{$string}, $patterns{$ch} );
}
else {
if ( $tmp =~ /\w/ ) {
carp "'\\$tmp' being treated as literal '$tmp'";
}
push( @{$string}, [$tmp] );
}
}
else {
croak 'regex not terminated';
}
},
'.' => sub {
my ( $self, $ch, $chars, $string ) = @_;
push( @{$string}, $patterns{$ch} );
},
'[' => sub {
my ( $self, $ch, $chars, $string ) = @_;
my @tmp;
while ( defined( $ch = shift( @{$chars} ) ) && ( $ch ne ']' ) ) {
if ( ( $ch eq '-' ) && @{$chars} && @tmp ) {
my $begin_ch = $tmp[-1];
$ch = shift( @{$chars} );
my $key = "$begin_ch-$ch";
if ( defined( $parsed_range_patterns{$key} ) ) {
push( @tmp, @{ $parsed_range_patterns{$key} } );
}
else {
my @chs;
for my $n ( ( ord($begin_ch) + 1 ) .. ord($ch) ) {
push @chs, chr($n);
}
$parsed_range_patterns{$key} = \@chs;
push @tmp, @chs;
}
}
else {
carp "'$ch' will be treated literally inside []"
if ( $ch =~ /\W/ );
push( @tmp, $ch );
}
}
croak 'unmatched []' if ( $ch ne ']' );
push( @{$string}, \@tmp );
},
'*' => sub {
my ( $self, $ch, $chars, $string ) = @_;
unshift( @{$chars}, split( //, '{0,}' ) );
},
'+' => sub {
my ( $self, $ch, $chars, $string ) = @_;
unshift( @{$chars}, split( //, '{1,}' ) );
},
'?' => sub {
my ( $self, $ch, $chars, $string ) = @_;
unshift( @{$chars}, split( //, '{0,1}' ) );
},
'{' => sub {
my ( $self, $ch, $chars, $string ) = @_;
my $closed;
CLOSED:
for my $c ( @{$chars} ) {
if ( $c eq '}' ) {
$closed = 1;
last CLOSED;
}
}
if ($closed) {
my $tmp;
while ( defined( $ch = shift( @{$chars} ) ) && ( $ch ne '}' ) ) {
croak "'$ch' inside {} not supported" if ( $ch !~ /[\d,]/ );
$tmp .= $ch;
}
if ( $tmp =~ /,/ ) {
if ( my ( $min, $max ) = $tmp =~ /^(\d*),(\d*)$/ ) {
if ( !length($min) ) { $min = 0 }
if ( !length($max) ) { $max = $self->{'_max'} }
croak "bad range {$tmp}" if ( $min > $max );
if ( $min == $max ) {
$tmp = $min;
}
else {
$tmp = $min + $self->{'_rand'}( $max - $min + 1 );
}
}
else {
croak "malformed range {$tmp}";
}
}
if ($tmp) {
my $prev_ch = $string->[-1];
push @{$string}, ( ($prev_ch) x ( $tmp - 1 ) );
}
else {
pop( @{$string} );
}
}
else {
# { isn't closed, so treat it literally.
push( @{$string}, [$ch] );
}
},
);
# Default rand function
sub _rand {
my ($max) = @_;
return int rand $max;
}
sub new {
my ( $proto, @args ) = @_;
my $class = ref($proto) || $proto;
my $self;
$self = {%old_patterns}; # makes $self refer to a copy of %old_patterns
my %args = ();
if (@args) { %args = @args }
if ( defined( $args{'max'} ) ) {
$self->{'_max'} = $args{'max'};
}
else {
$self->{'_max'} = 10;
}
if ( defined( $args{'rand_gen'} ) ) {
$self->{'_rand'} = $args{'rand_gen'};
}
else {
$self->{'_rand'} = \&_rand;
}
return bless( $self, $class );
}
# Returns a random string for each regular expression given as an
# argument, or the strings concatenated when used in a scalar context.
sub randregex {
my $self = shift;
croak 'called without a reference' if ( !ref($self) );
my @strings = ();
while ( defined( my $pattern = shift ) ) {
my $ch;
my @string = ();
my $string = q{};
# Split the characters in the pattern
# up into a list for easier parsing.
my @chars = split( //, $pattern );
while ( defined( $ch = shift(@chars) ) ) {
if ( defined( $regch{$ch} ) ) {
$regch{$ch}->( $self, $ch, \@chars, \@string );
}
elsif ( $ch =~ /[\$\^\*\(\)\+\{\}\]\|\?]/ ) {
# At least some of these probably should have special meaning.
carp "'$ch' not implemented. treating literally.";
push( @string, [$ch] );
}
else {
push( @string, [$ch] );
}
}
foreach my $ch (@string) {
$string .= $ch->[ $self->{'_rand'}( scalar( @{$ch} ) ) ];
}
push( @strings, $string );
}
return wantarray ? @strings : join( q{}, @strings );
}
# For compatibility with an ancient version, please ignore...
sub from_pattern {
my ( $self, @args ) = @_;
croak 'called without a reference' if ( !ref($self) );
return $self->randpattern(@args);
}
sub randpattern {
my $self = shift;
croak 'called without a reference' if ( !ref($self) );
my @strings = ();
while ( defined( my $pattern = shift ) ) {
my $string = q{};
for my $ch ( split( //, $pattern ) ) {
if ( defined( $self->{$ch} ) ) {
$string .= $self->{$ch}
->[ $self->{'_rand'}( scalar( @{ $self->{$ch} } ) ) ];
}
else {
croak qq(Unknown pattern character "$ch"!);
}
}
push( @strings, $string );
}
return wantarray ? @strings : join( q{}, @strings );
}
sub random_regex {
my (@args) = @_;
my $foo = String::Random->new;
return $foo->randregex(@args);
}
sub random_string {
my ( $pattern, @list ) = @_;
my $foo = String::Random->new;
for my $n ( 0 .. $#list ) {
$foo->{$n} = [ @{ $list[$n] } ];
}
return $foo->randpattern($pattern);
}
1;
=pod
=encoding UTF-8
=head1 NAME
String::Random - Perl module to generate random strings based on a pattern
=head1 VERSION
version 0.30
=head1 SYNOPSIS
use String::Random;
my $string_gen = String::Random->new;
print $string_gen->randregex('\d\d\d'); # Prints 3 random digits
# Prints 3 random printable characters
print $string_gen->randpattern("...");
I<or>
use String::Random qw(random_regex random_string);
print random_regex('\d\d\d'); # Also prints 3 random digits
print random_string("..."); # Also prints 3 random printable characters
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This module makes it trivial to generate random strings.
As an example, let's say you are writing a script that needs to generate a
random password for a user. The relevant code might look something like
this:
use String::Random;
my $pass = String::Random->new;
print "Your password is ", $pass->randpattern("CCcc!ccn"), "\n";
This would output something like this:
Your password is UDwp$tj5
B<NOTE!!!>: currently, C<String::Random> defaults to Perl's built-in predictable
random number generator so the passwords generated by it are insecure. See the
C<rand_gen> option to C<String::Random> constructor to specify a more secure
random number generator. There is no equivalent to this in the procedural
interface, you must use the object-oriented interface to get this
functionality.
If you are more comfortable dealing with regular expressions, the following
code would have a similar result:
use String::Random;
my $pass = String::Random->new;
print "Your password is ",
$pass->randregex('[A-Z]{2}[a-z]{2}.[a-z]{2}\d'), "\n";
=head2 Patterns
The pre-defined patterns (for use with C<randpattern()> and C<random_pattern()>)
are as follows:
c Any Latin lowercase character [a-z]
C Any Latin uppercase character [A-Z]
n Any digit [0-9]
! A punctuation character [~`!@$%^&*()-_+={}[]|\:;"'.<>?/#,]
. Any of the above
s A "salt" character [A-Za-z0-9./]
b Any binary data
These can be modified, but if you need a different pattern it is better to
create another pattern, possibly using one of the pre-defined as a base.
For example, if you wanted a pattern C<A> that contained all upper and lower
case letters (C<[A-Za-z]>), the following would work:
my $gen = String::Random->new;
$gen->{'A'} = [ 'A'..'Z', 'a'..'z' ];
I<or>
my $gen = String::Random->new;
$gen->{'A'} = [ @{$gen->{'C'}}, @{$gen->{'c'}} ];
The random_string function, described below, has an alternative interface
for adding patterns.
=head2 Methods
=over 8
=item new
=item new max =E<gt> I<number>
=item new rand_gen =E<gt> I<sub>
Create a new String::Random object.
Optionally a parameter C<max> can be included to specify the maximum number
of characters to return for C<*> and other regular expression patterns that
do not return a fixed number of characters.
Optionally a parameter C<rand_gen> can be included to specify a subroutine
coderef for generating the random numbers used in this module. The coderef
must accept one argument C<max> and return an integer between 0 and C<max - 1>.
The default rand_gen coderef is
sub {
my ($max) = @_;
return int rand $max;
}
=item randpattern LIST
The randpattern method returns a random string based on the concatenation
of all the pattern strings in the list.
It will return a list of random strings corresponding to the pattern
strings when used in list context.
=item randregex LIST
The randregex method returns a random string that will match the regular
expression passed in the list argument.
Please note that the arguments to randregex are not real regular
expressions. Only a small subset of regular expression syntax is actually
supported. So far, the following regular expression elements are
supported:
\w Alphanumeric + "_".
\d Digits.
\W Printable characters other than those in \w.
\D Printable characters other than those in \d.
. Printable characters.
[] Character classes.
{} Repetition.
* Same as {0,}.
? Same as {0,1}.
+ Same as {1,}.
Regular expression support is still somewhat incomplete. Currently special
characters inside [] are not supported (with the exception of "-" to denote
ranges of characters). The parser doesn't care for spaces in the "regular
expression" either.
=item from_pattern
B<IGNORE!> - for compatibility with an old version. B<DO NOT USE!>
=back
=head2 Functions
=over 8
=item random_string PATTERN,LIST
=item random_string PATTERN
When called with a single scalar argument, random_string returns a random
string using that scalar as a pattern. Optionally, references to lists
containing other patterns can be passed to the function. Those lists will
be used for 0 through 9 in the pattern (meaning the maximum number of lists
that can be passed is 10). For example, the following code:
print random_string("0101",
["a", "b", "c"],
["d", "e", "f"]), "\n";
would print something like this:
cebd
=item random_regex REGEX_IN_STRING
Prints a string for the regular expression given as the string. See the
synposis for example.
=back
=head1 VERSION
version 0.30
=head1 BUGS
This is Bug Free™ code. (At least until somebody finds one…)
Please report bugs here:
L<https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=String-Random> .
=head1 AUTHOR
Original Author: Steven Pritchard C<< steve@silug.org >>
Now maintained by: Shlomi Fish ( L<http://www.shlomifish.org/> ).
=head1 LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
=head1 SEE ALSO
perl(1).
=head1 AUTHOR
Shlomi Fish <shlomif@cpan.org>
=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2018 by Shlomi Fish.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
=head1 BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website
L<https://github.com/shlomif/string-random/issues>
When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a
patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired
feature.
=for :stopwords cpan testmatrix url annocpan anno bugtracker rt cpants kwalitee diff irc mailto metadata placeholders metacpan
=head1 SUPPORT
=head2 Perldoc
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
perldoc String::Random
=head2 Websites
The following websites have more information about this module, and may be of help to you. As always,
in addition to those websites please use your favorite search engine to discover more resources.
=over 4
=item *
MetaCPAN
A modern, open-source CPAN search engine, useful to view POD in HTML format.
L<https://metacpan.org/release/String-Random>
=item *
Search CPAN
The default CPAN search engine, useful to view POD in HTML format.
L<http://search.cpan.org/dist/String-Random>
=item *
RT: CPAN's Bug Tracker
The RT ( Request Tracker ) website is the default bug/issue tracking system for CPAN.
L<https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=String-Random>
=item *
AnnoCPAN
The AnnoCPAN is a website that allows community annotations of Perl module documentation.
L<http://annocpan.org/dist/String-Random>
=item *
CPAN Ratings
The CPAN Ratings is a website that allows community ratings and reviews of Perl modules.
L<http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/String-Random>
=item *
CPANTS
The CPANTS is a website that analyzes the Kwalitee ( code metrics ) of a distribution.
L<http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/dist/String-Random>
=item *
CPAN Testers
The CPAN Testers is a network of smoke testers who run automated tests on uploaded CPAN distributions.
L<http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/S/String-Random>
=item *
CPAN Testers Matrix
The CPAN Testers Matrix is a website that provides a visual overview of the test results for a distribution on various Perls/platforms.
L<http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=String-Random>
=item *
CPAN Testers Dependencies
The CPAN Testers Dependencies is a website that shows a chart of the test results of all dependencies for a distribution.
L<http://deps.cpantesters.org/?module=String::Random>
=back
=head2 Bugs / Feature Requests
Please report any bugs or feature requests by email to C<bug-string-random at rt.cpan.org>, or through
the web interface at L<https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=String-Random>. You will be automatically notified of any
progress on the request by the system.
=head2 Source Code
The code is open to the world, and available for you to hack on. Please feel free to browse it and play
with it, or whatever. If you want to contribute patches, please send me a diff or prod me to pull
from your repository :)
L<https://github.com/shlomif/string-random>
git clone http://github.com/shlomif/String-Random
=cut
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