ok i have rand int problems here :D

xmdxtreme · **Posted:** Sat May 15, 2004 9:46 pm

See i want my program to creat random accounts till 4 digits excluding MG- at the begining like i want it to make account like:
MG-3445
MG-3425
can somoene help me i tried real hard i cant get it to work like this.
then just to let you know later on when the user type the account number it will look at the fisrt 3 characters MG- then it will know it has to go to manager account. but if it SC- at the begining then it will take them to Savings and chequings account. its sound a bit complicated Rolling Eyes

lol

xmdxtreme · **Posted:** Sat May 15, 2004 10:01 pm

please help Embarassed

i got 1 more day for my first report.

jonos · **Posted:** Sat May 15, 2004 10:13 pm

Well you should just put the randomly generated accounts in an array and check the array against what they entered. Post some code so we know what you mean.

SuperGenius · **Posted:** Sat May 15, 2004 10:13 pm

ok. in a loop create a random integer and pass the value to a string which already includes the prefix you want.
accountnum will of course be a string var, and prefix would also be one, with a value like "MG" You could also create the other types of accounts by changing the prefix that is used

code:

accountnum (a) := prefix + "-" + intstr (randomnumber)

xmdxtreme · **Posted:** Sun May 16, 2004 7:04 am

I dont get it should i use a for loop or loop.
BTW can you explain your code sry.

we64 · **Posted:** Sun May 16, 2004 8:03 am

I think this is what he meant:

code:

var accountnum : array 1 .. 10 of string
var prefix : string := "MG"
var randomnumber : int
for a : 1 .. 10
randint (randomnumber, 1000, 9999)
accountnum (a) := prefix + "-" + intstr (randomnumber)
put accountnum (a)
end for

xmdxtreme · **Posted:** Sun May 16, 2004 8:10 am

thank you! +10 bits

Martin · **Posted:** Sun May 16, 2004 1:06 pm

Just an FYI, Rand.Int(low, high) is easier to use, because it is a function instead of a procedure. This way, your code would look like this (much shorter)

code:

var accountnum : array 1 .. 10 of string
var prefix : string := "MG"
for a : 1 .. 10
accountnum (a) := prefix + "-" + intstr (Rand.Int (1000,9999))
put accountnum (a)
end for

SuperGenius · **Posted:** Sun May 16, 2004 2:23 pm

Darkness wrote:

code:

var accountnum : array 1 .. 10 of string
var prefix : string := "MG"
for a : 1 .. 10
accountnum (a) := prefix + "-" + intstr (Rand.Int (1000,9999))
put accountnum (a)
end for

this is indeed what I meant, I was just hoping that you could come up with that yourself though.

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