I have a situation where by I need to create tens of thousands of unique numbers. However these numbers must be 9 digits and cannot contain any 0\'s. My current approach is
Something like this?
public List generateIdentifiers2(int quantity)
{
var uniqueIdentifiers = new List(quantity);
while (uniqueIdentifiers.Count < quantity)
{
var sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.Append(random.Next(11, 100));
sb.Append(" ");
sb.Append(random.Next(11, 100));
sb.Append(" ");
sb.Append(random.Next(11, 100));
var id = sb.ToString();
id = new string(id.ToList().ConvertAll(x => x == '0' ? char.Parse(random.Next(1, 10).ToString()) : x).ToArray());
if (!uniqueIdentifiers.Contains(id))
{
uniqueIdentifiers.Add(id);
}
}
return uniqueIdentifiers;
}