I just finished writing a string class that includes functions for generating random string (why I don't know, as I have never really needed random strings before). Basically the user can pass the function an enum citing what kind of string that'd like (i.e. AllUpperCase or AllNumeric). There is also an option for generating random hexadecimal, octal, and binary string representations. As it is, hex always begins with "0x", and binary with "0b", but I'm not sure what I should do for octals. I know the C/C++ compiler treats any number literal beginning with a 0 as an octal, but I always thought that was too confusing, as it is also a valid looking decimal number. Wikipedia suggest a solution to this is to use "0o" or "0q" in front of the number to distinguish it as an octal, and I was just wondering what other people's opinions were.
Parthmishr 0 Newbie Poster
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instead of "0x" for hex use use "0o" for octal, which is consistant with "%0o" in the printf() format specifier.
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