# String::Random - Generates a random string from a pattern # Copyright (C) 1999-2006 Steven Pritchard # # 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 = '0.32'; 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 get_pattern { my ( $self, $name ) = @_; return $self->{ $name }; } sub set_pattern { my ( $self, $name, $charset ) = @_; $self->{ $name } = $charset; } 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 0.32 =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 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: currently, C defaults to Perl's built-in predictable random number generator so the passwords generated by it are insecure. See the C option to C 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 ", $pass->randregex('[A-Z]{2}[a-z]{2}.[a-z]{2}\d'), "\n"; =head2 Patterns The pre-defined patterns (for use with C and C) are as follows: c Any Latin lowercase character [a-z] C Any Latin uppercase character [A-Z] n Any digit [0-9] ! A punctuation character [~`!@$%^&*()-_+={}[]|\:;"'.<>?/#,] . 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 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 my $gen = String::Random->new; $gen->{'A'} = [ @{$gen->{'C'}}, @{$gen->{'c'}} ]; I my $gen = String::Random->new; $gen->set_pattern(A => [ 'A'..'Z', 'a'..'z' ]); The random_string function, described below, has an alternative interface for adding patterns. =head2 Methods =over 8 =item new =item new max =E I =item new rand_gen =E I Create a new String::Random object. Optionally a parameter C can be included to specify the maximum number of characters to return for C<*> and other regular expression patterns that do not return a fixed number of characters. Optionally a parameter C can be included to specify a subroutine coderef for generating the random numbers used in this module. The coderef must accept one argument C and return an integer between 0 and C. The default rand_gen coderef is sub { my ($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 get_pattern STRING Return a pattern given a name. my $gen = String::Random->new; $gen->get_pattern('C'); (Added in version 0.32.) =item set_pattern STRING ARRAYREF Add or redefine a pattern given a name and a character set. my $gen = String::Random->new; $gen->set_pattern(A => [ 'A'..'Z', 'a'..'z' ]); (Added in version 0.32.) =item from_pattern B - for compatibility with an old version. B =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 BUGS This is Bug Free™ code. (At least until somebody finds one…) Please report bugs here: L . =head1 AUTHOR Original Author: Steven Pritchard C<< steve@silug.org >> Now maintained by: Shlomi Fish ( L ). =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). =for :stopwords cpan testmatrix url bugtracker rt cpants kwalitee diff irc mailto metadata placeholders metacpan =head1 SUPPORT =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 =item * RT: CPAN's Bug Tracker The RT ( Request Tracker ) website is the default bug/issue tracking system for CPAN. L =item * CPANTS The CPANTS is a website that analyzes the Kwalitee ( code metrics ) of a distribution. L =item * CPAN Testers The CPAN Testers is a network of smoke testers who run automated tests on uploaded CPAN distributions. L =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 =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 =back =head2 Bugs / Feature Requests Please report any bugs or feature requests by email to C, or through the web interface at L. 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 git clone http://github.com/shlomif/String-Random =head1 AUTHOR Shlomi Fish =head1 BUGS Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website L 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. =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2021 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. =cut __END__ # vi: set ai et: