How to create a random string in C++?

By Muskan Agarwal

Here we see how to create a random string in C++ using predefined functions.

The solution basically comprises of usage of rand() and srand() functions under <bits/stdc++.h>header.

The rand() function randomly generates integer values .This function is always accompanied by srand() function. The srand() function sets the starting point for producing these random integers. Generally,  as a practice, we take input as srand(time (NULL)) or srand(time(0)) initializing it a system time whose value will increase the randomness of integers generated.

To create random strings in C++

Firstly,  we create an array of alphabets and initialize a string variable ran and initialize it to ” “. To this we add letters combination for required result. We define MAX_SIZE  as the number of alphabets-26 in our case. This could be generalized for other cases. Then, we run a loop of wanted word length and for each loop, we do the following :

ran=ran+letters(rand()%MAX_SIZE)

In the main() function, we firstly take input for integer variable num i.e. the word length of the random words we wish to generate.

Sample Code:

#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
 
const int MAX_SIZE = 26;
 
string printstring(int n)
{
char letters[MAX_SIZE] = {'a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m','n','o','p','q',
'r','s','t','u','v','w','x',
'y','z'};


string ran = "";
for (inti=0;i<n;i++) 
ran=ran + letters[rand() % MAX_SIZE];


return ran;
}
int main()
{
srand(time(NULL));
   cout<<"enter the value of num:\n"; cin>>num;
cout << printstring(num);
return 0;
}

Enter the value of num:8

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