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• File Generate-Random-Data.ps1 — part of check-in [5d08cddd6e] at 2018-06-10 13:28:32 on branch trunk — A few helper functions for generating some random data (in some specific formats/types) (user: CrazyDave size: 1722)

# encoding: ascii
# api: powershell
# title: Generate Random Data
# description: A few helper functions for generating some random data (in some specific formats/types)
# version: 0.1
# type: function
# author: CrazyDave
# license: CC0
# x-poshcode-id: 3638
# x-archived: 2017-03-18T05:49:05
# x-published: 2013-09-13T10:29:00
#
#
$dictionaryWords = gc $dictionaryFile
$azLower = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'.ToCharArray()
$azUpper = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'.ToCharArray()
$hex = '012345679ABCDEF'.ToCharArray()
$digit = '0123456789'.ToCharArray()
$alphanumeric = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789'.ToCharArray()

function RandomVIN 
{
    $url = 'http://randomvin.com/getAjax.php?qry=random&str=random&p9=0'
    $client = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
    $client.DownloadString($url).SubString(4,17)
}

function RandomWord
{
    $dictionaryWords | Get-Random
}

function RandomString([int] $len, [Array] $charSet = $azLower)
{
    [String]::Join('', (1..$len | % { $charSet | Get-Random }))
}

function RandomPlate 
{
    (RandomString -len 3 -charset $azUpper) + "-" + (Get-Random -min 100 -max 999)
}

function RandomIPv4 {
    [IPAddress]::Parse([String] (Get-Random) )
}

function RandomHexByte {
    "{0:X2}" -f (Get-Random -Minimum 0 -Maximum 255)
}

function RandomMAC {
    [String]::Join(":", (1..8 | % { RandomHexByte }))
}

function RandomDateTime {
    ([DateTime]::Now).AddYears((Get-Random -min -1 -max 1)).AddMonths((Get-Random -min -11 -max 11)).AddDays((Get-Random -min -30 -max 30)).AddHours((Get-Random -min -23 -max 23)).AddMinutes((Get-Random -min -59 -max 59)).AddSeconds((Get-Random -min -59 -max 59))
}