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| author | zzak <zzak@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e> | 2013-09-20 14:40:08 +0000 |
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| committer | zzak <zzak@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e> | 2013-09-20 14:40:08 +0000 |
| commit | 9408bba58be4b2d92bd2a7f9b39f442cddf81bdc (patch) | |
| tree | 6f50fa09f0a5fef533e2e861676f3ae63c681f8a /lib/securerandom.rb | |
| parent | 000f39b4ff3d3954651f1e59dd3825f3e730d008 (diff) | |
* lib/securerandom.rb: [DOC] SecureRandom.hex length argument
[Fixes GH-394] Patch by @avdi https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/394
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@42991 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/securerandom.rb')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/securerandom.rb | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/securerandom.rb b/lib/securerandom.rb index b1603b4ca9..f12bc00114 100644 --- a/lib/securerandom.rb +++ b/lib/securerandom.rb @@ -116,10 +116,10 @@ module SecureRandom raise NotImplementedError, "No random device" end - # SecureRandom.hex generates a random hex string. + # SecureRandom.hex generates a random hexadecimal string. # - # The argument _n_ specifies the length of the random length. - # The length of the result string is twice of _n_. + # The argument _n_ specifies the length, in bytes, of the random number to be generated. + # The length of the resulting hexadecimal string is twice _n_. # # If _n_ is not specified, 16 is assumed. # It may be larger in future. |