Wow. Very quick answer. Thank you very much. I didn't even have time to post my response to my own question before you answered.

Nevermind.
Answered my own question.
I suppose some googling first wouldn't have hurt.

For anyone who's still curious about this, use the following extension on any variable you want to use as a...

Hi,
The program I'm making to teach myself C++ uses a user-specified file and then does the opening and read/write whatever stuff.

The error i get is this when trying to compile the...

Hi everyone. I was just wondering if anyone could help me with how to play a sound (from a file or directly specifying the frequency doesn't matter) on a Mac. I would prefer doing this directly from...

Perhaps you should start a new thread then

Thanks both of you for your help.
Here's the code I came up with. Its not perfect obviously but it lets the user pick a number to loop to and shows how long it takes to do that loop in seconds. ...

This is just an additional thought but could I get the system time in seconds from the Epoch? So then I could do something like this:

for(conditions)
int x, y, timetaken;
x = (get the time for...

Hi everyone,
I am trying to make a program that times how long it runs for in seconds or milliseconds or whatever. The unit of time doesn't matter, I just need to know if C has any function I could...

Oh okay. Thanks a lot.

What I mean is, is there any way I could select a character from a string at random? for instance in python:
x = random.choice("Hello World")
and x would return of value of say "W" as an example....

Hi I'm pretty new to C (about a week experience) and I was wondering if C had anything like Python's random.choice() function. Basically it just selected a random element from what you gave it, a...