另一个版本，灵感来自于生成密码在JavaScript加密:

package main

import (
    "crypto/rand"
    "fmt"
)

var chars = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890-"

func shortID(length int) string {
    ll := len(chars)
    b := make([]byte, length)
    rand.Read(b) // generates len(b) random bytes
    for i := 0; i < length; i++ {
        b[i] = chars[int(b[i])%ll]
    }
    return string(b)
}

func main() {
    fmt.Println(shortID(18))
    fmt.Println(shortID(18))
    fmt.Println(shortID(18))
}

另一个版本，灵感来自于生成密码在JavaScript加密:

package main

import (
    "crypto/rand"
    "fmt"
)

var chars = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890-"

func shortID(length int) string {
    ll := len(chars)
    b := make([]byte, length)
    rand.Read(b) // generates len(b) random bytes
    for i := 0; i < length; i++ {
        b[i] = chars[int(b[i])%ll]
    }
    return string(b)
}

func main() {
    fmt.Println(shortID(18))
    fmt.Println(shortID(18))
    fmt.Println(shortID(18))
}

如果您愿意向允许的字符池中添加一些字符，您可以使代码与任何通过io.Reader提供随机字节的东西一起工作。这里我们使用的是crypto/rand。

// 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
}

const (
    chars       = "0123456789_abcdefghijkl-mnopqrstuvwxyz" //ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
    charsLen    = len(chars)
    mask        = 1<<6 - 1
)

var rng = rand.NewSource(time.Now().UnixNano())

// RandStr 返回指定长度的随机字符串
func RandStr(ln int) string {
    /* chars 38个字符
     * rng.Int63() 每次产出64bit的随机数,每次我们使用6bit(2^6=64) 可以使用10次
     */
    buf := make([]byte, ln)
    for idx, cache, remain := ln-1, rng.Int63(), 10; idx >= 0; {
        if remain == 0 {
            cache, remain = rng.Int63(), 10
        }
        buf[idx] = chars[int(cache&mask)%charsLen]
        cache >>= 6
        remain--
        idx--
    }
    return *(*string)(unsafe.Pointer(&buf))
}

基准RandStr16-8 20000000 68.1 ns/op 16 B/op 1 分配/操作

作为icza的出色解决方案的后续，下面我使用rand。读者

func RandStringBytesMaskImprRandReaderUnsafe(length uint) (string, error) {
    const (
        charset     = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789"
        charIdxBits = 6                  // 6 bits to represent a letter index
        charIdxMask = 1<<charIdxBits - 1 // All 1-bits, as many as charIdxBits
        charIdxMax  = 63 / charIdxBits   // # of letter indices fitting in 63 bits
    )

    buffer := make([]byte, length)
    charsetLength := len(charset)
    max := big.NewInt(int64(1 << uint64(charsetLength)))

    limit, err := rand.Int(rand.Reader, max)
    if err != nil {
        return "", err
    }

    for index, cache, remain := int(length-1), limit.Int64(), charIdxMax; index >= 0; {
        if remain == 0 {
            limit, err = rand.Int(rand.Reader, max)
            if err != nil {
                return "", err
            }

            cache, remain = limit.Int64(), charIdxMax
        }

        if idx := int(cache & charIdxMask); idx < charsetLength {
            buffer[index] = charset[idx]
            index--
        }

        cache >>= charIdxBits
        remain--
    }

    return *(*string)(unsafe.Pointer(&buffer)), nil
}


func BenchmarkBytesMaskImprRandReaderUnsafe(b *testing.B) {
    b.ReportAllocs()
    b.ResetTimer()

    const length = 16

    b.RunParallel(func(pb *testing.PB) {
        for pb.Next() {
            RandStringBytesMaskImprRandReaderUnsafe(length)
        }
    })
}

如果需要选择是否大写，我通常会这样做

func randomString(length int, upperCase bool) string {
    rand.Seed(time.Now().UnixNano())

    var alphabet string

    if upperCase {
        alphabet = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
    } else {
        alphabet = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
    }

    var sb strings.Builder

    l := len(alphabet)

    for i := 0; i < length; i++ {
        c := alphabet[rand.Intn(l)]
        sb.WriteByte(c)
    }

    return sb.String()
}

如果不需要大写字母，就像这样

func randomString(length int) string {
        rand.Seed(time.Now().UnixNano())

        var alphabet string = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
        var sb strings.Builder

        l := len(alphabet)

        for i := 0; i < length; i++ {
                c := alphabet[rand.Intn(l)]
                sb.WriteByte(c)
        }

        return sb.String()
}