If you are willing to add a few characters to your pool of allowed characters, you can make the code work with anything which provides random bytes through a io.Reader. Here we are using crypto/rand
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// len(encodeURL) == 64. This allows (x <= 265) x % 64 to have an even
// distribution.
const encodeURL = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-_"
// A helper function create and fill a slice of length n with characters from
// a-zA-Z0-9_-. It panics if there are any problems getting random bytes.
func RandAsciiBytes(n int) []byte {
output := make([]byte, n)
// We will take n bytes, one byte for each character of output.
randomness := make([]byte, n)
// read all random
_, err := rand.Read(randomness)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
// fill output
for pos := range output {
// get random item
random := uint8(randomness[pos])
// random % 64
randomPos := random % uint8(len(encodeURL))
// put into output
output[pos] = encodeURL[randomPos]
}
return output
}