I have a list of about 500 names in a text file, i want to be able to get 5 random winners from this file. using C++ how do i do this
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Read each name into a string and assign to a vector of strings.
Get the size of the vector and create a random number in the range 0 - (size-1). Record it.
Repeat 4 more times throwing away any duplicates of entries already selected.
Output the names corresponding to the 5 numbers that have been generated.
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