Hello all,

I'm new to .NET and C# and I'm trying to figure out how this code works:

public static string CreateRandomPassword(int PasswordLength)
{
  String _allowedChars = "abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ23456789";
  Byte[] randomBytes = new Byte[PasswordLength];
  RNGCryptoServiceProvider rng = new RNGCryptoServiceProvider();
  rng.GetBytes(randomBytes);
  char[] chars = new char[PasswordLength];
  int allowedCharCount = _allowedChars.Length;

  for(int i = 0;i<PasswordLength;i++)
  {
      ///
      /// I don't understand how this line works:
      ///
      chars[i] = _allowedChars[(int)randomBytes[i] % allowedCharCount];
  }

  return new string(chars);
}

I think I've got a pretty good handle on most of this. I haven't been able to understand the following line:

chars[i] = _allowedChars[(int)randomBytes[i] % allowedCharCount];

I understand that the code generates random binary numbers and uses those random numbers in the for loop to select a character from the _allowedChars string. What I don't get is why this code uses the modulous operator (%) to get the _allowedChars index value.

Thanks for any help