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Available inall subroutines.

Returns a random string of length len containing characters from the optionally supplied string characters.

If characters is not supplied, this function uses characters from the following set of 64: a-zA-Z0-9-_.

This does not use secure random functions and should not be used for cryptographic purposes.

This function is not prefixed with the std. namespace.

Example

set req.http.X-RandomHexNum = randomstr(8, "1234567890abcdef");