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Chuck Vought wrote:

How do you go about randomly assigning alternating vowels and consonants? I have created arrays for each but can not determine the way to alternate them.

Chuck Vought wrote:

const int index = (int)((double)rand()/(RAND_MAX+1) * sizeof(consonant));

const int index = rand() % sizeof(consonants);

for(UINT i = 0; i < 100; ++i)
{
     if(i % 2 == 0)
     {
          //Even.
     }
     else
     {
          //Odd.
     }
}

for(UINT i = 0; i < 100; ++i)
{
     if(i & 0x1)
     {
          //Odd.
     }
     else
     {
          //Even.
     }
}

char RandomVowel()
{
   const char vowels[] = {'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u'};
   // Use rand() to get a number between 0 and RAND_MAX. Dividing
   // by RAND_MAX+1 gives a number n such that 0 <= n < 1, so
   // multiplying by the number of characters in vowels gives a random
   // index into vowels
   const int index = (int)((double)rand()/(RAND_MAX+1) * sizeof(vowels));
   return vowels[index];
}

std::string name;
name += (char)toupper(RandomConsonant());
for(int i=1;i<desired-name-length;++i)
{
   if (i%2==1)
      name += RandomVowel();
   else
      name += RandomConsonant();
}

#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
	string name;
	static const int namelen = 15;
	
	static const char* letters[2] = { "bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz", "aeiouy" };
	static const letterlen[2] = { strlen(letters[0]), strlen(letters[1]) };
	
	for (int i=0; i<namelen; i++)
		name += letters[i%2][rand()%letterlen[i%2]];
	name[0] = toupper(name[0]);

	return 0;
}

Chuck Vought wrote:

...how do i loop it so that i can generate the number of names that the user inputs?