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  3. February 2008

Re: Random number access on the i5

Mark Villa wrote:

What do you need the random number to do?

pick a record in a table, if the random number is < 1 or > the number
of records in the file, get another number and repeat until done.

Scott and several others have posted code that uses C rand() and srand(). This ought to be somewhat portable across all platforms. Here's one http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/200104/msg00589.html

These are standard C library routines, and ought to have enough provenance to get you going without having to try to make your own algorithm.

--buck

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