I am needing to have this program choose between two options randomly. The program all works except that when I use this line of code:
int x= rand() % 2;
it seems that it's not random but rather follows the same pattern every time. I have searched and found things like gettickcount() but even with the headers, it wont compile. Anything that will let it randomly choose between 0 or 1 is just what I need.
Thanks!
Jump to PostDid you call srand()?
Yes, sorry I failed to mention that. Originally I had
srand ( time(NULL) );
int x= rand() % 2;
but it seemed that rather than mixing it up during runtime it just stuck with either the 0 or 1. I wasnt sure if it was because not enough time was passing or.....?
Did you call srand() only once? Or every time you called rand() ?
You guessed it! I was just getting back on here to close this thread as I had found someone else with the same problem on another forum. So I just had to create another function so that yes, it only called srand() once rather than every time.
Thanks.
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