help with rand

Hey, I'm back. YOu were right, Java is good for a while, but i ahd to come back to C++. anyway, I've tried to write a program that chooses a number, and the user has to guess it. I also want it to display the number of guess when the user is correct. I kind of forget what im doing, but this is what I have:

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    char ans;
   
    do {
        int fav = std::rand() % 10;
        int num;
        int guess = 1;
        do {
            std::cout << "Pick a number from 1 to 10\n";
            std::cin >> num;
              if(num != fav){ ++guess;
              } 
              std::cout << (num < fav ? "Low" :
                          num > fav ? "High"  :
                              "You are Correct!\a\n It took you"
                                    std::cout << guess<< "Guesses")
               
                      << std::endl;
                      }while (num != fav);
                      std::cout << "Try again? y/n";
                      std::cin >> ans;
                      }while (ans == 'y');
            return 0;
}

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I think you want to use srand as well to seed the random number generator.

http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284385

> int fav = std::rand() % 10;
And if you want a number from 1 to 10, then make this:
int fav = std::rand() % 10 + 1;

If you have the line
using namespace std;
in your code, then you don't need to preface cin and cout with std::

Don't you the ternary operator for nested ifs. It makes your code incredibly unreadable.

I also recommend you pair up your braces

Code:

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{
    blah;
}

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The code is a lot easier to read if the opening and closing braces of the same scope are lined up with each other.