Random_shuffle not so random?

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I took my deck of Cards (class Card) and shuffled the. But every time i ran the program it gave me the same shuffled results....

void Deck::shuffleDeck()
{
	std::random_shuffle(deck.begin(), deck.end());
}

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Did you call srand first?

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MasterGberry: fast response

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MasterGberry -3 · Answer 1 · 2011-01-29T04:26:14+00:00

just realizes i forgot that. Is it just

srand(time(NULL));?

EDIT: Nvm, works now. Dumb mistake by me :P ty

erikandr · Answer 2 · 2011-01-29T04:27:43+00:00

Try:

void Deck::shuffleDeck()
{
        srand(time(NULL));    // Set seed for random numbers
    std::random_shuffle(deck.begin(), deck.end());
}

Cheers,
Erik