RE: Controlling ('rand') random number upper limit -- RPG400-L

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>According to the documentation, rand returns a 
>number from 0 to RAND_MAX, and I'm not sure 
>what RAND_MAX is defined as

The documentation for C functions never uses hard-wired numbers.  It always
refers to constants like RAND_MAX.  These constants are described in the
system header files.  The header files needed for the function are specified
in the documentation.  You can peek in, say QCLE/H member STDLIB.    
#define RAND_MAX           32767 

The C documentation for rand() is at
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/QB3AT500/1.2.125

Buck 
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