srand

[zk123]

hi
i'm making a battleships game in c++ and i want to use the srand to place the battleships in random places and random direction (i.e. facing north, south, east, west)
please help
thankyou

[Athar]

Help with what? srand just initializes the PRNG, rand() generates numbers.
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstdlib/rand/
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstdlib/srand/

[andrezc]

help with what, man? you can use cplusplus's examples for this.