Given below is my attempt to create a simple high-low game. I just don't understand why the code given below behaves differently when I place the srand(time(0)) inside the do-while loop, i.e, why does the modified code generate the same random number in each iteration of the loop?
#include<iostream>
#include<cstdlib>
#include<ctime>
int main(){
int c;
srand(time(0));
do{
int i, num;
int min = 1;
int max = 10;
float fraction = 1.0 / (RAND_MAX+ 1);
num = min + (max-min + 1) * (rand() * fraction);
for (int j=0;j<20;j++){
std::cout<<"*";
}
std::cout<<"THE GUESSING GAME!";
for (int j=0;j<20;j++){
std::cout<<"*";
}
std::cout<<"\nRange of guess should be 1 to 10 inclusive\n ";
std::cout<<"Guess a number: ";
std::cin>>i;
while(1){
if (i==num){
std::cout<<"Yeah! you guessed it right! "<<i<<" is the right number "<<std::endl;
break;
}else if (i<num){
std::cout<<"Too low\n";
std::cout<<"Guess another number: ";
std::cin>>i;
}else{
std::cout<<"Too high\n";
std::cout<<"Guess another number: ";
std::cin>>i;
}
}
std::cout<<"\nWanna play again? Press 1 to continue and 0 to exit: ";
std::cin>>c;
}while(c);
return 0;
}
