Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 10:01:14 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Help w/ Random # Generator gone crazy.
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On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 jfmcginnis95 AT surfbest DOT net wrote:

> void getScores (int b[], int num)
> 
> {
> 
> cout << endl;
> 
> srand(time(NULL));
> 
> for (int i=0; i < num; i++)
> 
>     b[i] =rand()%100;
> 
> }
> 
> If  I enter 1 through 4 as the number variable for the array it seems to do
> fine.  When I get a larger number of elements in the array though it will
> give me all zeros or huge numbers, positive and negative, that have not
> appeared to have gone through the %100 part of the function.  Anyone have
> any ideas?

An idea: post a short complete program that can be compiled and run.  
Your code snippet has too many unknowns to see what might go wrong.  (For 
exampe, how is b[] declared in the calling routine? how do you print the 
resulting array? and so on, and so forth...)