如何在C中从2中分配某物？

Question

so i have got a struct that goes:

enum input_result get_human_player(struct player* human)
{
    char playerName[NAMELEN];
    printf("What is your name? ");
    fgets(playerName, NAMELEN, stdin);
    strcpy((*human).name, playerName);

    (*human).type = HUMAN;
    (*human).thiscolor = C_WHITE;
    (*human).counters = 0;

    return FAILURE;
}

how do i make it so it randomly assigns it to either C_WHITE or C_RED with a 50/50 chance?

Answer 1

rand will return a random integer. Assuming it is uniformly distributed (which might not be true, as not guaranteed by every implementation), the number will be odd or even with 50/50 chance. Using this fact:

if (rand() % 2)
{
    //Do the first thing
}
else
{
    // Do the other one
}

** Don't forget to seed the random number generator.