Help with randomizer

[Cprodigy]

cout <<"This Program will randomly pick a name"<<endl;
	Sleep (2000);
	 srand((unsigned)time(0)); 
    
    for(int index=0; index<20; index++)
        random_integer = (rand()%20)+1; 
  Sleep (5000);
        
        if (random_integer = 1)
        {
        	cout <<" name 1"<<endl;
        }
        if (random_integer = 2)
        {
        	cout <<" name 2"<<endl;
        }
        if (random_integer = 3)
        {
        	cout <<"name 3"<<endl;
        }
        if (random_integer = 4)
        {
        	cout <<"name 4"<<endl;
        }
        if (random_integer = 5)
        {
        	cout <<" name 5"<<endl;
        }

The if statements continue until 20. Later the "name 1, name 2".. stuff will just be a string. The problem with the current code is that the if statements don't work. No matter what the random number is, all of the names are displayed. Help please?

[LB]

You used a single = instead of a double ==

[Cprodigy]

I know the single = sign is called the assignment operator, so whats the double one called

[LB]

The equality comparison operator, it lets you see if two things are equivalent.

[Stewbond]

Why are you doing this?

for(int index=0; index<20; index++)
    random_integer = (rand()%20)+1;

You are recalculating random_integer 20 times. Second, I'd probably re-organize this like so:

string names[20] = { "Fred", "James", "Jordan", "Jillian", /* ... */ "Jack" };
random_integer = rand() % 20;
cout << names[random_integer];

A combination of if statements like this can almost always be shorter. Copy+paste is not a programming technique.