In C4, you can use the C4Math class, which has a class method of the randomInt class ...
[C4Math randomInt:255]; will give you a random number from 0 to 255.
There is also a method randomIntBetweenA:andB:...
[C4Math randomIntBetweenA:100 andB:200] will give you randomInt between 100 and 200 ...
Under the hood, these methods are as follows:
+(NSInteger)randomInt:(NSInteger)value {
srandomdev();
return ((NSInteger)random())%value;
}
+(NSInteger)randomIntBetweenA:(NSInteger)a andB:(NSInteger)b{
NSInteger returnVal;
if (a == b) {
returnVal = a;
}
else {
NSInteger max = a > b ? a : b;
NSInteger min = a < b ? a : b;
NSAssert(max-min > 0, @"Your expression returned true for max-min <= 0 for some reason");
srandomdev();
returnVal = (((NSInteger)random())%(max-min) + min);
}
return returnVal;
}
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