How to select random letters in c++

Question

Hi I'm working on an hangman project for my final in my c++ class. I've got most of it working but I wanted to make it so the player could have the option to play against a computer opponent in single player mode. I tried doing something like 97+rand()%123 so then convert the number to characters but I keep getting weird characters like an upside down f I checked to see if I was missing something but I have the right directives and I included a srand. a simplified version of what I did looks like this

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>
#include <cstring>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <ctime>
using namespace std;

int main(){
    char cch;
    char ch; 
    unsigned seed= time(0)
    srand(seed)
    cch=97rand()%123;
    ch=cch;
    cout<<"computer chose "<< ch<<endl;
}

please note that I didn't include everything my project

Answer 1

Use

cch = 'a' + rand()%26;

This will add a random number to 'a' (which in int equals 97 but using that number makes your code less readable), remember 'a' == 97 because C and C++ don't actually care about your data type.

So if it is stored as char is will be seen as char