Hi, i'm doing a simple program in C, and i need a option that terminates the program.
For example, instead of appearing "Press any key to continue..." the program will instantly close.
I've been googling and i found some references on a exit command, but i don't have any ideia on how to use it :-S

Can anyone help me??

Don't put system("pause"); in the program, since that is what causes the message to appear and causes it to wait for a keypress.

A "normal" program termination is a return from main()


If you are way down in some nested calls of functions and you want to "exit" immediately, without returning all of the way to main(), then use exit:



Look up standard library functions at places like this: Standard C Library. Click on <stdlib.h> and scroll down to exit

Regards,

Dave

Hi Dave, thanks for the reply

Ok, now i understand how to exit a program without the "Press any key to continue...".

What is the best option to exit a program, when you are using files and lot's of functions?
Is it the exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); or exit(EXIT_FAILURE); ?

The argument to the "exit()" function is passed back to the calling process by the operating system. If you run the program from a command line, a command line script may be able use the return value to cause it to do something, or it may simply ignore the return value. If the calling program is another program (through a system() call, for example), the return value may mean something significant to allow the calling program take action dependent on the returned value.

The actual mechanism for returning a value is not part of the C language (it's operating-system dependent). The only two values defined in Standard C are the EXIT_SUCCESS, or EXIT_FAILURE macros in <stdlib.h>. That is, "exit(3)", for example, may cause different actions, depending on the operating system.

The statement "exit(EXIT_SUCCESS)" is equivalent to exit(0). The result of an "exit(0)" is the same as a "return 0;" at the end of main().

Typically people use "return(0)" or "exit(0)" or "exit(EXIT_SUCCESS)" unless they want to give the calling program to discriminate between a satisfactory termination and termination caused by an error condition.

Regards,

Dave

Hey!

Once again, thanks for the reply.
It was clear as water

Regards,
IndioDoido