On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Shao Zhang wrote:
--Reply-To:
--Hi,
-- I have some trouble to generate a random number. Please help.
-- I use the current time for the seed:
--
-- unsigned int gen_magic()
-- {
-- time_t cur;
-- char *cur_time;
--
-- time(&cur);
-- cur_time = ctime(&cur);
--
-- srandom((unsigned int) (atol(cur_time)));
--
-- return random();
-- }
--
-- But everytime this function gets called, it is always return the same
number:
--
-- +------------+
-- | number |
-- +------------+
-- | 1362961854 |
-- | 1362961854 |
-- | 1362961854 |
-- | 1362961854 |
-- | 1362961854 |
-- | 1362961854 |
-- | 1362961854 |
-- +------------+
--
-- There must be a better way to do this. Please tell me...
--
-- Thanks.
--
--Shao.
--
You should only seed the random number generator once. You're seeding each time
you're calling random().
--ernie :^)
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