On 14 Feb 2005, at 18:43, Joshua Brady wrote:

So I'll shove in 003 nxx for example?

I think if you're happy for those fields in your database to be meaningless, you could enter any random number you liked. Joe

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Steve Phillips wrote:

In the spirit of helpfulness I have thrown together a small program to help you in your endevor.

-- cut -- #!/usr/bin/perl [Stuff Deleted] -- end --

Oh great. You posted code. Of course, you realise that this will result in replies in which people analyse your code for standards compliance, produce smaller/siller/obfuscated versions, announce holy jihads about your indenting style/white spacing, produce assembly language versions for various processor architectures, versions in LOGO, versions in JCL, etc... Thanks a bunch. :) JSR -- John S Russell | Big Geek | Doing geek stuff.

Sorry in advance, your code was very clear, but there always needs to be someone to point out a way of doing some perl code in one line. echo 1 | perl -e "foreach(1...<>){print int(rand(9)).int(rand(9)).int(rand(9)).\"\n\"}" Where 1 is the number of APN's you need. Sorry Daniel Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do. Bertrand Russell --Quoted in Antony Flew's Thinking About Thinking Steve Phillips wrote:

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Joe Abley wrote:

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On 14 Feb 2005, at 18:43, Joshua Brady wrote:

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So I'll shove in 003 nxx for example?

I think if you're happy for those fields in your database to be meaningless, you could enter any random number you liked.

In the spirit of helpfulness I have thrown together a small program to help you in your endevor.

-- cut -- #!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

my $number = 1; my $x = 0;

if ($number == 0) { exit; }

while ($x < abs($number)) { print int(rand(9)) . int(rand(9)) . int(rand(9)) . "\n"; $x++; } -- end --

Hope you find it helpful. (Note, you will need perl installed in /usr/bin/perl, and it will need to be run on some *ix box, also, dont make $x anything other than 0 or weird things may happen, oh, and you can alter $number to be the number of values you require for your database thingy wotsit.)