Generate random string/characters in JavaScript

Question

I want a 5 character string composed of characters picked randomly from the set [a-zA-Z0-9].

What\'s the best way to do this with JavaScript?

Answer 1

function randomString (strLength, charSet) {
    var result = [];

    strLength = strLength || 5;
    charSet = charSet || 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789';

    while (--strLength) {
        result.push(charSet.charAt(Math.floor(Math.random() * charSet.length)));
    }

    return result.join('');
}

This is as clean as it will get. It is fast too, http://jsperf.com/ay-random-string.