Question

So I was feeling bored and decided I wanted to make a hangman game. I did an assignment like this back in high school when I first took C++. But this was before I even too geometry, so unfortunately I didn’t do well in any way shape or form in it, and after the semester I trashed everything in a fit of rage.

I’m looking to make a txt document and just throw in a whole bunch of words (ie: test love hungery flummuxed discombobulated pie awkward you get the idea )

So here’s my question: How do I get C++ to read a random word from the document?

I have a feeling #include<ctime> will be needed, as well as srand(time(0)); to get some kind of pseudorandom choice…but I haven’t the foggiest on how to have a random word taken from a file…any suggestions?

Thanks ahead of time!

Answer 1

Here’s a rough sketch, assuming that the words are separated by whitespaces (space, tab, newline, etc):

vector<string> words; ifstream in('words.txt'); while(in) {   string word;   in >> word;   words.push_back(word); }  string r=words[rand()%words.size()];