Re: [Dev-C++] 2 more questions

[Luigi S. <gi...@li...>]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 06:39:59PM +0000, Paul Ardeleanu wrote:
> Why are you all so keen in returning a value at the end of main?
> 
> Paul

Besides what Ioannis has already said, another good reason to
have a program return some value is to ... use the value! :)

For instance, I remember that the (now, or soon to be, obsolete) 
command.com  shell allowed to write some script file like the following

rv_test.bat
-----------
rem   use return value of "foo" to choose a label 
foo

if errorlevel 2 goto label2
if errorlevel 1 goto label1
:else
  echo program "foo" returned 0 (success)
  goto end


:label1
  echo program "foo" returned 1
  goto end

:label2
  echo program "foo" returned a value greater or equal to 2
  goto end

:end
--------


I can't test the above right now (running bash :), but it should work
-- 
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A:	He spent the night in a warehouse.