Originally posted by "Standard Library"

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fclose
Syntax

#include

int fclose(FILE *file);

Description

This function closes the given file.

Return Value

Zero on success, else EOF.

Portability

ANSI/ISO C C89; C99

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Originally posted by Disch

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Originally posted by MisterJones

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(although on C it's kind of weird IIRC)

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C is just typically more geared towards integers, so rand() gives a random integer value (between 0 and RAND_MAX, which I believe to be defined as 0x7FFF). However that's easily transformed to a usable range with a simple mod operation:

int something = rand() % 10;

That will give you a random number between 0-9 (inclusive).

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Originally posted by Zem

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That's not the best way to do it, it wouldn't be properly weighted. I'll show how with a small-scale example:

Let's say RAND_MAX was 8, and you wanted a number between 0 and 4, so you did rand() % 5. This has (presumably) an equal probability of coming up with each of the following:
0 % 5 = 0
1 % 5 = 1
2 % 5 = 2
3 % 5 = 3
4 % 5 = 4
5 % 5 = 0
6 % 5 = 1
7 % 5 = 2
8 % 5 = 3

You'd end up with a 2/9 chance to get any of 0, 1, 2, or 3, and a 1/9 chance to get 4. Obviously this effect diminishes as the distance between RAND_MAX and your mod increases, but there must be a better way to scale it...

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Originally posted by neotransotaku

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Side Note--I would obviously rather program in C/C++. Problem is, I never have been able to pick up a nice windowing toolkit as convenient as Java--I've tried both MFC and WinAPI but the books I've read present way too much information right off the bat (or too difficult to use)

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Originally posted by Nebetsu

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Yeah it's been done. You have to use a mini-itx board.
http://www.mini-itx.com/

Instructions for your little project can be found here. As well as a cigar case, a ceramic cow, lego, sega genesis, mini beer thing, etc.

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Originally posted by Wurl

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Today I realized I'm almost out of memory. I've decided to add a hardrive and was looking for sugestions. I'm on a budget and would prefer external, though they seem to be grossly overpriced. Suggestions?

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Originally posted by KTurbo

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Hi ho, I'm trying come up with a code which makes the [mousedown] command repeat itself over and over until you release the mouse btn, it could be use as a e.g. autoshot in a game. Could anyone give me a hint how to do this? _¬

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Originally posted by HyperHacker

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Writing your documentation in MS Word = fail. Those of us who don't have crappy expensive word processors can't read it.

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Originally posted by firemaker

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It's a shame that you can't remove IE from explorer and get it to run lololol instead. Didn't actually know that Acrobat Reader required internet explorer though .

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