From 117d461c4944f189576f0c4967851de458ba6f32 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Saumit Dinesan <justsaumit@protonmail.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2023 16:19:32 +0530
Subject: Updating README + Creating idgen package and importing it

---
 idgen/id_generator.go | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 idgen/id_generator.go

(limited to 'idgen/id_generator.go')

diff --git a/idgen/id_generator.go b/idgen/id_generator.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8c34f41
--- /dev/null
+++ b/idgen/id_generator.go
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+// id_generator.go
+package idgen
+
+import (
+	"math/rand"
+	"time"
+)
+
+const (
+	// Define the character set for the generated IDs.
+	chars = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789"
+
+	// Define the desired length of the generated IDs.
+	idLength = 8
+)
+
+// Initialize the random number generator.
+func init() {
+	rand.Seed(time.Now().UnixNano())
+}
+
+// GenerateID generates a short and readable ID.
+func GenerateID() string {
+	id := make([]byte, idLength)
+	for i := 0; i < idLength; i++ {
+		id[i] = chars[rand.Intn(len(chars))]
+	}
+	return string(id)
+}
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