[Interest] Generating unique string

[Etienne Sandré-Chardonnal]

If you don't like the uuid format, you could hash the uuid or convert its
binary representation to base64


2014-02-16 6:22 GMT+01:00 scorp1us at yahoo.com <scorp1us at yahoo.com>:

> I'd suggest the uuid over the hash, unless you use a randomized hash
> content. Time is not good enough. Uuids are supposed to be unique, I'd use
> those.
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> * From: * Etienne Sandré-Chardonnal <etienne.sandre at m4x.org>;
> * To: * Jonathan Greig <redteam316 at gmail.com>;
> * Cc: * Interests Qt <interest at qt-project.org>;
> * Subject: * Re: [Interest] Generating unique string
> * Sent: * Sat, Feb 15, 2014 7:57:21 AM
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>   Have a look also to this : http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/quuid.html
>
> Etienne
>
>
> 2014-02-15 7:58 GMT+01:00 Jonathan Greig <redteam316 at gmail.com>:
>
>> Igor,
>> You might want to look at QCryptographicHash and then truncate or
>> concatenate to N chars. Either that or QDateTime using the epoch. Your
>> solution depends on how you are defining unique. Either way should be
>> fairly simple.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 1:49 AM, <igor.mironchik at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>   Hi.
>>>
>>> Does Qt have something for generating unique string of N chars?
>>>
>>> Or maybe does somebody know simple way to do it?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
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