Random String Generation

How to Generate a Somewhat Random Value in Hugo

time.Now generates something like: 2023-10-15 12:59:28.337140706 -0700 PDT m=+0.041752605 # Use time.Now to generate a somewhat random string and store it in the variable $seed. {{ $seed := time.Now }} # Hash the value in $seed and return its MD5 checksum encoded to a hexadecimal string. # Then randomly shuffle the string and store the result in $id. {{ $id := delimit (shuffle (split (md5 $seed) "" )) "" }}

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