As basic a java qeustion as you can get!!

LanceStorm

How do you end the program??
I need some one to be able to type 0 and have the program end,

I serached for it but I only found System.exit and that wont work!!

Common guys this is the most basic Q out there, help an idiot out will ya??

Draupnir

you could read in the integer and pass it to system.exit

int endValue = System.in.readLine();

System.exit(endValue);

if endValue is = 0 then this will exit the program, however I have no idea what System.exit() does when you pass any other integer value?

I suspect your problem was you werent doing System.exit(0) rather just System.exit or something else silly

Rabies

in a nut shell....




//read in number num

while (num != 0)
{

//do what ever you want


//read number again before end of loop...
}

LanceStorm

I was just using

System.exit();

I'll give System.exit(0) a shot n see what happens, thanks guys!!

Draupnir

While that works, its considered to be "bad style" when compared with using System methods to terminate the process imo

Hobbes

I normally let the top level method finish running, and close out a method by doing a return and setting a value to tell the program it is finished (if that is what to do).

As for the exit code, it is an errorlevel passed back to the system. It would be up to the system to handle it.

example.

[b]sample.bat[/b]
@echo off
REM Batch file to demontrate error level.

java myApplication

if errorlevel == 1 echo error 1 happened. 

So if you did a System.exit(1); it should cause the Echo command to execute.