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ascii - ASCII characters

This function generates random characters in the ASCII character-encoding scheme originally based on the English alphabet.

Only printable ASCII characters will be returned (no control characters).

This function is best suited to generate salts, authorisation keys, passwords, etc.

ASCII() function behaves similar to the javascript String.fromCharCode() or php's char() function.

Source: Wikipedia: American Standard Code for Information Interchange

Usage(s)

ascii ()	Returns one random ASCII character in the range 32 to 126
ascii ( $decimal )	Returns a string of random ASCII characters with length $length
ascii ( $minimum , $maximum )	Returns a string of ASCII characters with a string length in the range $minimum to $maximum

Parameter(s)

$decimal	The Unicode decimal value to be converted into ASCII
$minimum	The minimum length for the string of characters.
$maximum	The maximum length for the string of characters.

Example(s)

Generating some random ASCII art

ascii(50,50)

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