Picking a random riddle

[Callum5042]

I make loads of riddle but I need to make it pick a random riddle from it.

how would I do do it?

Thank you in advance.

[Lv0f92yv]

What do you mean by random riddle?

What database is this, and how do you plan to access it?

Edit: 60 second response - not trolling, promise.

[Callum5042]

When I said database basicly I put made loads of riddles in the script.

Sorry i'm finding it hard to get it out my head what I mean :(

[Lv0f92yv]

Do you mean some kind of file with different 'riddles' on each line? And you want to choose a random line from that file (and thus a random riddle)?

[Callum5042]

Yeah

[Lv0f92yv]

Have a look at file IO: http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/files/

and the srand function, for pseudorandom numbers.

Get the number of lines in the file, get a random number that is within that number of lines, and extract the given line based on the number using the filestream pointer.

[Albatross]

Note that you should probably use use srand(time()).
http://cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstdlib/
http://cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/ctime/time/

To get the number of lines, use getline(ifstream, garbagestring) until you find an EOF. Maybe using good() will help?
http://cplusplus.com/reference/iostream/ios/good/

-Albatross