Need Java help

[Garrador]

I'm (for training) making a text based war game, and i need to get a random number (for friendly soldiers killed) within a limit that the user defines.

The user can choose how many soldiers he want to take with him from the camp, and that amount is stored in a "int footSoldAmount". Then i need to generate a random number that will not go over the footSoldAmount that the user defined. And i cant do that with a

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friendlySoldKilled = killedFriendlyRandom.nextInt(the random nuber i need);

so i wonder if anyone could help me generate a random nuber that will stop at the user defined value?

I cant get the Math.random() to work correctly if that is the way out.

Help?

[jaddorii]

Hmm dont know in java but in C++ it's something like srand (0); then rand() % [highest amount of kills] or something like that. Try googling Make random dice in java or something like that.

[Garrador]

ok... i don't think srand(0) works in java, but ill try some stuff. I'm playing with some if statements, but their not accutrate enough kind of. Im working on a

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if ((friendlySoldKilled > footSoldAmount) && (friendlyTanksKilled > tanksAmount))
                {
                 out.print("You lost your whole army. Want to continue? Y/N");
                 
                 int ContiAnswer;
                    ContiAnswer = choiceScanner.findInLine(".").charAt(0);
               
                    if ((ContiAnswer == 'y') || (ContiAnswer == 'Y'))
                    {
                       how to restart the game           
         }
}
               

but that is if i cant generate a good enough number...

But it still is a possibility.

I have another question. look at what's bold in the code. if the answer is yes, i want the program to kind of restart.

[zombie@computer]

math random all the way. it generates a random number 0 < n < 1, so to get a number between 0 and 1569 you would use

int r = (int)(1569*Math.random());

[Garrador]

ah cool. Thanks. I'll test when i get home.

[Forceflow]

Math.random

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api ... /Math.html