From 0d278156941829dc289708bd4bbe291daaa0dd45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Stillman <dstillman@zotero.org>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 19:46:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Scholar.randomString( [int len] ) -- generate a random string

---
 .../content/scholar/xpcom/scholar.js           | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

diff --git a/chrome/chromeFiles/content/scholar/xpcom/scholar.js b/chrome/chromeFiles/content/scholar/xpcom/scholar.js
index 44e125275b..eadd95afc6 100644
--- a/chrome/chromeFiles/content/scholar/xpcom/scholar.js
+++ b/chrome/chromeFiles/content/scholar/xpcom/scholar.js
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ var Scholar = new function(){
 	this.getString = getString;
 	this.flattenArguments = flattenArguments;
 	this.join = join;
+	this.randomString = randomString;
 	
 	this.Hash = Hash;
 	
@@ -177,6 +178,23 @@ var Scholar = new function(){
 	}
 	
 	
+	/**
+	* Generate a random string of length 'len' (defaults to 8)
+	**/
+	function randomString(len) {
+		var chars = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXTZabcdefghiklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
+		if (!len){
+			len = 8;
+		}
+		var randomstring = '';
+		for (var i=0; i<len; i++) {
+			var rnum = Math.floor(Math.random() * chars.length);
+			randomstring += chars.substring(rnum,rnum+1);
+		}
+		return randomstring;
+	}
+	
+	
 	/*
 	 * Class for creating hash arrays that behave a bit more sanely
 	 *