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VuGen: More Random Selections
Posted on Oct, 2009 by Admin
/*
The following lines will capture a list returned from a web server page response and
then randomly select one of the items from that list and pass it on
to the next URL
*/
int rNum;
char x[500];
web_reg_save_param("temp_cat",
"LB=abcdef",
"RB=xyz",
"Ord=ALL",
LAST);
web_url("index.jsp",
"Some URL's",
LAST);
//srand is called before rand
srand(time(NULL));
rNum= rand() % atoi(lr_eval_string("{temp_cat_count}")) + 1;
lr_output_message ("A number between 1 and temp_cat_count: %d\n", rNum);
/* rNum will be some random number between 1 and temp_cat_count */
sprintf(x,"URL=http://www.XYZ.com/site/olspage.jsp?{temp_cat_%d}&type=category",rNum);