Really fast, really easy:
srand(time(NULL)); // Seed the time
int finalNum = rand()%(max-min+1)+min; // Generate the number, assign to variable.
And that is it. However, this is biased towards the lower end, but if you are using C++ TR1/C++11 you can do it using the random header to avoid that bias like so:
#include <random>
std::mt19937 rng(seed);
std::uniform_int_distribution<int> gen(min, max); // uniform, unbiased
int r = gen(rng);
But you can also remove the bias in normal C++ like this:
int rangeRandomAlg2 (int min, int max){
int n = max - min + 1;
int remainder = RAND_MAX % n;
int x;
do{
x = rand();
}while (x >= RAND_MAX - remainder);
return min + x % n;
}
and that was gotten from this post.