// Author:  Keith Shomper
// Date:    10/10/03
// Purpose: To demonstrate re-directed I/O, error output, variable scope, 
//          and arrays

#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <time.h>

using namespace std;

int main() {

	// the number of array elements, the smallest and the largest values
	int n, min, max;

	// seed the random number generator
	srand(time(0));

	// Prompt the user for the number of random numbers to generate
	cerr << "How many random numbers do you want to generate?  ";
	cin >> n;

	// Prompt the user for the range of the randome numbers to generate
	cerr << "Within what range would you like the numbers (e.g., min, max)?  ";
	cin >> min >> max; 

	// The collection of statements within '{' and '}' are called blocks
	// objects "live" from the moment of declaration until the end of the
	// enclosing block
	{
		// The size of the array
		const int SIZE = n;

		// declare an int array of the given size
		int a[SIZE];

		// print out the size of the array
		cout << SIZE << endl;

		// assign random values of the given range to the array and print them
		// out
		for (int i = 0; i < SIZE; ++i) {
			a[i] = rand() % (max-min+1) + min;
			cout << a[i] <<  endl;
		}
	}

	return 0;
}