Classing problem

[Liam1994]

How do i get this to randomly throw out 1 of the text in the eightBall class

#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main()


{
string iSecret;
string eightBall[15];
string question;
cout << "Welcome, my name is 8ball ask me a yes and no question." << endl;
cin >> question;
cout << eightBall[15];



eightBall[0] ="Yes, in due time.";
eightBall[1] ="My sources say no.";
eightBall[2] ="Definitely not.";
eightBall[3] ="Yes.";
eightBall[4] ="You will have to wait.";
eightBall[5] ="I have my doubts.";
eightBall[6] ="Outlook so so.";
eightBall[7] ="Looks good to me!";
eightBall[8] ="Who knows?";
eightBall[9] ="Looking good!";
eightBall[10] ="Probably.";
eightBall[11] ="Are you kidding?";
eightBall[12] ="Go for it!";
eightBall[13] ="Don't bet on it.";
eightBall[14] ="Forget about it.";

srand (time(NULL));
iSecret = rand() % 15 + 1;
return 0;
}

[quirkyusername]

You've already done most of the work here.
If you don't care about storing the value of the random output just do this

cout << eightBall[rand() % 15 + 1];

but if you do want to, then store it in iSecret

iSecret = eightBall[rand() % 15 + 1]
cout << iSecret

it's strange to have a variable, iSecret, starting with an i (which normally represents an int) which is a string. Are you sure iSecret wasn't meant to be an int and store the position in the array of the random element, not the string itself?

[Liam1994]

Doesn't seem to work quirky unless im putting those lines into the wrong ones

#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main()


{
string iSecret;
string eightBall[15];
string question;
cout << "Welcome, my name is 8ball ask me a yes and no question." << endl;
cin >> question;
cout << iSecret;



eightBall[0] ="Yes, in due time.";
eightBall[1] ="My sources say no.";
eightBall[2] ="Definitely not.";
eightBall[3] ="Yes.";
eightBall[4] ="You will have to wait.";
eightBall[5] ="I have my doubts.";
eightBall[6] ="Outlook so so.";
eightBall[7] ="Looks good to me!";
eightBall[8] ="Who knows?";
eightBall[9] ="Looking good!";
eightBall[10] ="Probably.";
eightBall[11] ="Are you kidding?";
eightBall[12] ="Go for it!";
eightBall[13] ="Don't bet on it.";
eightBall[14] ="Forget about it.";

srand (time(NULL));
iSecret = eightBall[rand() % 15 + 1];
return 0;
}

[Browni3141]

I don't understand what you want.
Why not just add cout << iSecret?
This would make more sense though:

int iSecret;
...
srand(time(NULL));
iSecret = rand()%15+1;
cout << eightBall[iSecret];
...

Or you could even take out the intermediate step of assigning iSecret and do away with one more variable.