From 2681411eaf4ebc60107eac7669e5429f51a45c17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce McPherson <bruce@mcpher.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 12:11:07 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] updated by GasGit automation

---
 libraries/cUseful/Utils.js | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)

diff --git a/libraries/cUseful/Utils.js b/libraries/cUseful/Utils.js
index e9166c2..d8e8119 100644
--- a/libraries/cUseful/Utils.js
+++ b/libraries/cUseful/Utils.js
@@ -175,6 +175,41 @@ var Utils = (function (ns) {
     return result;
   };
   
+  /** 
+  * generateUniqueString
+  * get a unique string
+  * @param {number} optAbcLength the length of the alphabetic prefix
+  * @return {string} a unique string
+  **/
+  ns.generateUniqueString = function (optAbcLength) {
+    var abcLength = ns.isUndefined(optAbcLength) ? 3 : optAbcLength;
+    return  (new Date().getTime()).toString(36)  + arbitraryString(abcLength) ;
+  };
+  
+  /** 
+  * get an arbitrary alpha string
+  * @param {number} length of the string to generate
+  * @return {string} an alpha string
+  **/
+  ns.arbitraryString = function (length) {
+    var s = '';
+    for (var i = 0; i < length; i++) {
+      s += String.fromCharCode(ns.randBetween ( 97,122));
+    }
+    return s;
+  }
+  
+  /** 
+  * randBetween
+  * get an random number between x and y
+  * @param {number} min the lower bound
+  * @param {number} max the upper bound
+  * @return {number} the random number
+  **/
+  ns.randBetween = function (min, max) {
+    return Math.floor(Math.random() * (max - min + 1)) + min;
+  }
+  
   ns.yesish = function(s) {
     var t = s.toString().toLowerCase();
     return t === "yes" || "y" || "true" || "1";