Assign random character to text Actor

[jazz_e_bob]

How do I do this in C?

strcpy ( textActor.text, char$(random) );

Thanks in advance.

[makslane]

You can use this code:

sprintf(textActor.text, "%c", 'A'+(int)rand(25));

Where:
'A': is your initial letter
rand(23): will return a value between 0 and 25

So, you can get letters from 'A' to 'A'+25 = 'Z'

[jazz_e_bob]

Yep, that works. Thanks mate.

http://www.artsystems.com.au/game%20editor/ge%20matrix.zip

What if I have a string "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890"

How do I pick out a single character from the string?

eg: strcpy ( textActor.text, [random character from string] );

[makslane]

Use this:

char *s = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890";

sprintf(text, "%c", s[(int)rand(strlen(s) - 1)]);

[makslane]

Matrix Tell me if I can put on site!

[jazz_e_bob]

Of course mate!

Final version here:

http://www.artsystems.com.au/game%20editor/ge%20matrix.zip

[ingsan]

WOW CoOL

[makslane]

Thank you!