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UWA week 37 (2nd semester, week 7) ↓

1st project PID (both)

11:14pm Sun 15th Sep, ANONYMOUS

Hello, i would like to ask regarding the output file (the c file where we translate the ml file to). Do we have to make the output file with the PID included like in the example?

UWA week 38 (2nd semester, week 8) ↓

1st project PID (both)

5:23am Mon 16th Sep, Joshua N.

ANONYMOUS wrote:

> Hello, i would like to ask regarding the output file (the c file where we translate the ml file to). Do we have to make the output file with the PID included like in the example?

The file is temporary and will be deleted by your program. So, you can name it whatever you want (but make 110% sure the name doesn't and will not collide with other file names when run on other people's computers). However, the reason why it is given the name of the PID is to prevent writing to a file that already exists (i.e. User created files, it's unlikely someone named their file a whole bunch of random numbers).