[SOLVED] Generate random license plate text on vehicle creation

[Stealthy Serval]

Hey all, so I'm struggling trying to understand how I could create a random license plate when a vehicle spawns.

I got it down to generate random numbers, but I was hoping to have the license plate be 3 characters followed by 3 numbers. How would I go about getting this done?

Edited November 28, 2018 by Stealthy Serval

[Patrick]

Does it matter to be unique?
Can two different vehicles have the same license plate?

 

If don't matter:

local characters = {"A","B","C","D","E","F","G","H","I","J","K","L","M","N","O","P","Q","R","S","T","U","V","W","X","Y","Z"}

function createRandomPlateText()
	local plate = ""

 	for i = 1, 3 do
    	plate = plate..characters[math.random(1, #characters)]
	end
	plate = plate.."-"
	for i = 1, 3 do
		plate = plate..math.random(1, 9)
	end
	
	return plate
end

 

Edited November 28, 2018 by Patrick2562

[Stealthy Serval]

9 minutes ago, Patrick2562 said:

Does it matter to be unique?
Can two different vehicles have the same license plate?

 

If don't matter:

local characters = {"A","B","C","D","E","F","G","H","I","J","K","L","M","N","O","P","Q","R","S","T","U","V","W","X","Y","Z"}

function createRandomPlateText()
	local plate = ""

 	for i = 1, 3 do
    	plate = plate..characters[math.random(1, #characters)]
	end
	plate = plate.."-"
	for i = 1, 3 do
		plate = plate..math.random(1, 9)
	end
	
	return plate
end

 

It does need to be unique, but I actually have a check in place for that!

That works perfectly, thank you so much. I clearly need to learn more Lua because I really don't understand the whole "for do" statements.

Edited November 28, 2018 by Stealthy Serval

[Captain Cody]

Could make it so it's 100% unique by using tables. If there's a conflict simply rerun the function.