Error invalid operands of types 'void' and 'int'...

[SunDevil1171]

I making a simple single number scrambler/encryptor and as I tried to build the console application the following error
occurred:

error: invalid operands of types 'void' and 'int' to binary 'operator%'

I have no idea what this means. The source code is bellow.

#include <iostream>
#include <math.h>
#include <cstdlib>
 
using namespace std;
 
int main()
{
    int nTimer;
    int nInput;
    int nRand;
    int nInRa;
 
    nTimer = 0;
    nRand = 1;
    nInRa = 0;
 
    cout << "Input a number" << endl;
    cin >> nInput;
 
    while(nTimer < 5){
        nInRa = srand(nRand)% 3 + 1;//error is on this line
 
        if(nInRa == 1){
            nInput = nInput + 1;
        }
        if(nInRa == 2){
            nInput = nInput + 2;
        }
        if(nInRa == 3){
            nInput = nInput + 3;
        }
        nTimer = nTimer + 1;
        nRand = nRand + 1;
 
 
    }
    cout << nInput;
    return 0;
}
 

I am running code::blocks as my IDE on Ubuntu.
Thank you for any help!

[divideby0]

srand doesn't return a value, but you're trying to assign it as though it did to nInRa. srand is your seed, which generally takes time(NULL) as its argument... include time.h or ctime

you'd want rand to generate the "random" sequence.

srand((unsigned)time(NULL));
 
nInRa = rand() % 3 + 1;
 

[SunDevil1171]

Thank you so much I heard you could use time.h but I didnt know how!