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From: clear@cavebbs.gen.nz (Charlie Lear)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: THINK Pascal on the Mac
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.043110.4328@cavebbs.gen.nz>
Date: 28 Feb 91 04:31:10 GMT
References: <17150@milton.u.washington.edu>
Organization: The Cave MegaBBS, Public Access Usenet, Wellington, NZ
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In article <17150@milton.u.washington.edu> plague@milton.u.washington.edu (Jack Brown) writes:
>I've got a problem.  I need to be able to generate random integers between
>1 and 100. These are for indexing arrays.  Anyway, the problem is that when
>I call the funciton 'random', I get integers between +-32767.  It is simple
>to scale these to provide numbers between 1 and 100, but I can't seem to get
>integers out of them...

Try putting the range after the random function, for example
 random(100)

Works on most compilers.
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