CPP won't generate text? - c++

Question

I have some CPP code to generate Lorem Ipsum style text. It works when I ask it for one sentence at a time, but when I tell it to mass generate sentences it generates tons of sentences that are just spaces and then periods. Here's the code (modified for confidentiality):
srand(time(NULL));
string a[9327] = {"Str1", "Str2", "Str3" . . .};
int loop_1 = 0;
int loop_2 = 0;
while (loop_2 <= 100000) {
while (loop_1 <= (rand() % 38) + 2) {
int value = rand() % (9327 - (rand() % (9327 - (rand() % (9327 - (rand() % 9327))))));
cout << a[value] << " ";
loop_1 = loop_1 + 1;}
cout << "\b. ";
loop_2 = loop_2 + 1;
}
I'm sorry if this is an incompetent question. I'm a conlanger/composer normally but I had to throw together some code for a project––so I'm still just barely learning C++.

Answer 1

Okay, I mean, this code doesn't make a lot of sense but to answer the question, note that the only way the inner loop can not issue random strings is if it never runs and it will not run if loop_1 is greater than (rand() % 38) + 2 which is a random number from 2 to 40. Once loop_1 is greater than 40 the inner loop can never run, because loop_1 only increases.
But anyway, before that occurs, if you want the inner loop to definitely run then test that it does ... Also might as well get rid of loop_2 because it isn't doing anything once loop_1 is greater than 40.
Replacing 9327 with 7, I get
int main() {
srand(time(NULL));
string a[7] = { "aaaaaaaaaa ", "bbbbbbbb ", "ccccccccccccc ", "dddddddd ", "eeeeeeeeeee ", "ffffffffff ", "ggggggg "};
int loop_1 = 0;
while (loop_1 < 40) {
auto num = (rand() % 38) + 2;
if (loop_1 > num) {
continue;
}
while (loop_1 <= num) {
int value = rand() % (7 - (rand() % (7 - (rand() % (7 - (rand() % 7))))));
cout << a[value] << " ";
loop_1 = loop_1 + 1;
}
cout << "\b. ";
}
}