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AdorableVB
AdorableVB

Reputation: 1393

How to get a random letter in VB6?

I cannot convert those I see in VB.Net I wanted to create something like a "Word Factory" So I need to produce a random letter. I managed to get a random number using this

Dim x, first, last
first = 65
last = 90
x = Int((last - Min + 1) * Rnd + Min)

How about random letters from the alphabet? in VB6. Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1292

Answers (2)

paxdiablo
paxdiablo

Reputation: 881403

You can turn an integer code point into a character with the Chr() function, and go back the other way with Asc().

That means you can get a random letter with code such as:

Dim mych As String
mych = Chr(Asc("A") + 26 * Rnd)

Upvotes: 2

user3092841
user3092841

Reputation: 43

Could you use a similar technique to the random number, but have the random number as the index of an array of characters?

On unrelated note you may want to pay attention to the distribution of the random letters, weighting some of the more common letters so they occur more frequently.

Upvotes: 1

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