I am trying to get familiar with higher functions in our CSE100 class so I am attempting a sample problem of my own. I was wondering if maybe you could help me out. I am trying to create a random name generator (first and last). The first name and last names are in a variable list (firstname1, firstname2, etc) and I initialized every one equal to a different name (firstname1 = “John “ etc. I was wondering how I would get it to randomly select one of these strings. This is kinda what I want the program to do in the end:



RANDOM NAME GENERATOR



Press enter to generate a name… <user presses enter>



Random name = John Doe



Press enter to generate a name… <user presses enter>



Random name = Jane Doe



And so on and so forth in an infinite loop. I know I would probably need it to randomly generate a number between 1 and N, then select the corresponding string value. It would then need to do that twice to get the last name selected as well.

I have all the variables working, etc... I just dont know how to get the randomizer to work

The form you have mentioned, firstname1 and lastname one, will just not work. I was thinking about a bitchingly big array. In this form:


and so on and so forth. The next thing that you need to consider is getting a random number. I'm pretty sure that you can find lots of info on randomization on the internet.

Would you declare the variables like normal, such as string firstname1, firstname2, firstname3, etc?

EDIT: Im assuming the top line is declaration. string firstname[400] assigns 400 variables already?

This post has been edited by Squirrel: 6 Feb, 2007 - 02:45 PM