I'm working on a project that needs dummy data. Is there any way to autogenerate it?
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Anonymous2005-04-28 16:37
Depends on what the nature of the data is. If it's just dummy text, there's the trusty old "lorem ipsum" generators (first result on Google gives you a web-based nonsense text generator). If it's a bunch of spreadsheet data it shouldn't be a big deal to make a macro or simple program to churn out random values. If it's database records, again you may be able to program in random generators as macros or functions. Unless you're pretty confident with doing that stuff, or you have to generate thousands of values/records, you'd probably be quicker to just type in some dummy data manually.