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UWA week 40 (2nd semester, week 10) ↓

2nd project Project 2 - Input file validation? (all 7)

6:50pm Thu 3rd Oct, Joshua N.

"Joshua Noble" <22*6*9*8@s*u*e*t*u*a*e*u*a*> wrote:

> "Joshua Noble" <22*6*9*8@s*u*e*t*u*a*e*u*a*> wrote: > > > "Samay Gupta" <23*6*5*8@s*u*e*t*u*a*e*u*a*> wrote: > > > > > So, if any process request comes other than 0 to 3 in the input string, I am skipping that process and processing rest of the processes as required without printing any error > > > > If you encountered a number outside of 0-3 then you would assume the file is corrupted and you shouldn't continue reading. So best practice is to print an error message then call exit(EXIT_FAILURE).

Actually the best practice is to never call "exit" because it doesn't end the program "gracefully". The best practice is to return EXIT_FAILURE (1) in main. If you are interested.