Why not utilize math.random() and pass the resulting number into the string.char() method instead of manually typing out all possible characters?
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Alternatively you could just do
local String = ""
for _ = 0, Length do
String = String .. string.char(math.random(97, 122))
end
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My face when
local RandomString = (function() local t = {}; for i = 0, math.random(0, 1000) do table.insert(t, utf8.char(math.random(1, 1114111))) end; return table.concat(t, ""); end)()
warn(RandomString) --> 𨃇𠐝𩓱𣜜暊𓊨𣏟𫡬爈䏁𥯪💃帓𓋀𥁤𦼤𐤛ⷒ𭜔砮𨧸ኚ𱆆і𱎆뀕Ƀ𧿔㏒
Readable code be like
local randomString = game:GetService("HttpService"):GenerateGUID()
This is a GUID, not a random string since it has the {} and dashes (i forgot the name mbmb)
if you want a TRULY random string, use the utf8 library
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As I said, it isn’t truly random as it only uses letters and numbers
What you are showing me is called an UUID
You don’t really have a random string. Though a UUID for keys is great!
But for a truly random string, utf8 has WAYYYY MORE CHARACTERS than a GUID.
That is technically three lines. I’m assuming that is a unicode random generator.
This seems very useful for procedural tags and such, I’ll probably be using this for future projects.
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i have shortened it to one 
return function() game:GetService(“HttpService”):GenerateGUID() end
Gotta admit - for a first post, pretty good post construction. Also, this will be very useful for generating secret user Keys or something like that! Well done and keep up the good work.
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supposed to be GenerateGUID(false) if used to a important key so its not in {}
But why would you not want the brackets?
bc u wanted string not string in a table, but u can unpack it
The brackets are part of the string, it’s like “{hkjlsf343-hJKFH67OI}”
u waste few byte for extra length (~2-4b), optimization and effiency is 1st (my opinion)
That makes more sense. But why not use string.pack?
In that case, why don’t you do just a random Unicode character or an internal ID system to get random generator? why don’t you do tostring(math.random())
back to you,its your opinion to choose which should u pick
I shortened it down to one
local http, str = game:GetService("HttpService"), http:GenerateGUID()
JK lol. thought it was funny maybe its not. idek if it will work. But all in all. This module looks cool and looked fun to make
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