Setting Return Code at the end of a programm

[p-OS]

It seems it is currently not possible top set the (shell) return code of a compiled program when it quits.

If your program is meant to be called from a Shell with some self defined parameters, then it would be useful to set return code if it couldn't act as exspected, e.g. if it is called within a Shell script / Batch file...

One could define a new env variable and after program execution check the value of this env variable. But it would be more clean to use an OS' default mechanism.

I tried to set my OS' default result variable:

MorphOS:

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SetEnv("RC",30)
End

Besides the fact that the variable name has to be different depending on the OS running, it didn't work at all.
When a compiled Hollywood program exits, it always overrides the return code with value 0.

Imagine, your program gets an argument -textfile and shall do some operations on this file, this file might not be available -> thus porgram should quit with an error code

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If myaction_result="success"
  End  ; or End(0)
Else
  End(30)
EndIf

[airsoftsoftwair]

Yes, this sounds like a useful extension. I'll try to implement this in a future version.

[airsoftsoftwair]

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- New: End() accepts an optional argument now which allows you to set the program's exit status

[p-OS]

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Print("Well done , Andreas :-D")
End(0)  -- default value...nonetheless ;)