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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 number from an array or a character from a string. If there is no function for this, if anyone could suggest a way around it, so for instance, I have a string "Hello World", how could I pull a random character out of that?
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rand() returns a random value between 0 and MAX_RAND.
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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.
Anyway at all to do this?
Thanks for your help.
x = random.choice("Hello World")
and x would return of value of say "W" as an example.
Anyway at all to do this?
Thanks for your help.
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Of course. I already mentioned you should use the rand() function. Lets say the string is "Hello World"
The above is a little long winded, but illustrates how to do it.
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The above is a little long winded, but illustrates how to do it.
Last edited by Ancient Dragon; Dec 1st, 2008 at 7:06 pm.
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