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Need help to access a random word from a list of words!

 
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Need help to access a random word from a list of words!
nickyp
6 Nov, 2006 - 11:18 AM
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Hey, im making a slot machine program and I need help. Im not looking for any code since i want to learn it myself. But I do need some help to find out what method I should use. I was thinking i should create a list of words(like lemon, strawberry, and orange, and bar) and somehow assign them to a number, which I would make a program to randomly generate a number and output the associated word. What kind of method should I use to make this happen.
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6 Nov, 2006 - 11:34 AM
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g++ -o drink whiskey.cpp
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I would create an array of strings objects that contains all your words, then use the rand() function to generate a number between 0 and the array length minus 1. Then output that element of the array.
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