Produce random character with c program
 

I need some advice on random characters.

Hi,

When you initiate the rand function with randomize (in stdlib) it uses the current time / date to make the number random. If you use srand to initiate the number, you would need to write something like srand((NULL)time())...
To produce the random char I would do something like this:

char c[] = {"abcde.....ABCDE.....?.,:$!"0123456789"} // all valid chars
int n = strlen(c); // #chars in c[]
int i = rand(); // a random number from 0 to 32767
i = i % n; // i will now be in the interval from 0 to n-1
c[i]; // will be a random char

However, it is possible to improve the quality of the random number by replacing
i = rand();
with
do { i = rand(); } while (i >= n * (int)(32768 / n)) ;

Hope this helps.

if you want a random ASCII char, i believe
char chr = (char) i
will work, where i is from 0 to 255

also, shouldn't this be in the programming forum?

Here are some source codes
 

Here are some source codes

http://www.agner.org/random/

Thanks for the advise