Thread: exiting program

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    exiting program

    in the program i am doing i need to give the option to the user for exiting the program totally at certain points in the game, i was wondering if anybody could help me out with writing the code for it. The program is containing a lot of for and while loops. thanks in advance for helping

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    Just call the exit() function if you want to bail out from the whole program.
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    If you're in main() you can use return x. If you're in a function other than main() you can return a value up the stack to main():
    Code:
    int main(void) {
        /* ... */
        if(one()) return 1;
        /* ... */
    }
    
    int one(void) {
        /* ... */
        if(two) return 1;
        /* ... */
        return 0;
    }
    
    int two(void) {
        /* ... */
        if(error) return 1;
        /* ... */
        return 0;
    }
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