How to generate a random int in C?

Question

Is there a function to generate a random int number in C? Or will I have to use a third party library?

Answer 1

Try this, I put it together from some of the concepts already referenced above:

/*    
Uses the srand() function to seed the random number generator based on time value,
then returns an integer in the range 1 to max. Call this with random(n) where n is an integer, and you get an integer as a return value.
 */

int random(int max) {
    srand((unsigned) time(NULL));
    return (rand() % max) + 1;
}