generating a random string

[Jen2]

hello, help.

i'm trying to generate a random string of characters of user defined length, with or without repetitions. i've just started using C and have absolutely no idea what i'm doing.

[Banfa]

OK well use the following functions

• fgets - to read input from the user (use the file stdin)
• atoi or strtoul - convert user data to a binary number
• malloc - to allocate data for the string, remember you will need to terminate the string with a NULL ('\0') character so allocate 1 more slot than the user requests.
• [b]free - to free the the allocated data before the end of the program once you have finished with it
• srand - to seed the random number generator, people often use the return value from time to get a seed value
• rand - to get a random number, this will be in the range 0 - RAND_MAX and you will need to scale it to the range you require.

You will also need to know how arrays work.

I suggest you look all that up, then when you have made an attempt post it here and we will help you debug it.