Programming

How could I put a numerical character in program status?

marpin,

Your question needs to be a little more clear. Provide code and the background for your question - otherwise it might be taken as homework (which shouldn't be posted here).

Are you talking about function returns? Or a program return value, such as one that can be retrieved with an echo $? after the program runs?

If the latter, it's a simple exit(-1) or some number. Please elaborate.

Cheers,

Keith

i hope that i got your question right, but is it's what i think then you need to define that number

#define EXIT_AFTER_FAILURE -6
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int main(int argc, char *argv[]){
some functions();
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..
if (some test condition){
return(-6);
}
}

but if you DEFINE a number already... use the define


if (some test condition){
return(EXIT_AFTER_FAILURE );
}
}