How to give conditions to Rand() - c++

Question

First time on stack overflow.
I have this assignment due for class where we have a guessing game where our program has to generate a string of Uppercase letters of n length and n different defined by the user. I got most of my assignment working but when generate the string I am lost with how I could put these conditions in place for it to work.
char create_sequence(){
return rand() % 26 + 65;
}
Do you have any tips?

Answer 1

If you know sequence length, you don't need amount of different characters. This is because you require length <= characters.
To create sequence of n unique characters write a separate function:
vector<char> create_sequence(int n) {
vector<char> letters;
for (char ch = 'A'; ch <= 'Z'; ++ch) {
letters.push_back(ch);
}
vector<char> sequence;
for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
int index = rand() % letters.size();
sequence.push_back(letters[index]);
letters.erase(letters.begin() + index, letters.begin() + index + 1);
}
return sequence;
}

Answer 2

Well, personally I think you are not far from the answer:
rand() % 26 + 65
Will effectively returns an uppercase ASCII letter. As long as you initialize the random seed once srand (time(NULL));, you can then call your instruction as many times as you want to get random values. So all you miss is a simple loop. Here is an example for 5 characters:
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <stdlib.h> /* srand, rand */
#include <time.h> /* time */
char randomChar(){
return rand() % 26 + 65;
}
std::string randomString(int length)
{
srand (time(NULL));
std::string rc("");
for(int i=0; i<length; ++i)
{
rc += randomChar();
}
return rc;
}
int main()
{
std::cout << "Random string (x5) is " << randomString(5) << "\n";
}