2.1.2 main()
The main function now does not care about any command line arguments.
Instead we use Stdio.Readline()->read() to prompt the user for instructions
and arguments. The available instructions are "add", "list" and "quit".
What you enter into the variables cmd and args is checked in the
switch() block. If you enter something that is not covered
in any of the case statements the program just silently ignores it and
asks for a new command.
In a switch() the argument (in this case cmd) is checked in the case statements. The first case where the expression equals cmd then executes the statement after the colon. If no expression is equal, we just fall through without any action.
The only command that takes an argument is "list" which works as in the first version of the program.
If "list" receives an argument, that record is shown along with all the songs
on it. If there is no argument it shows a list of the records in the database.
When the program returns from either of the listing functions, the break instruction tells the program to jump out of the switch() block.
"add" of course turns control over to the function described above.
If the command given is "quit" the exit(0) statement stops the execution of the program and returns 0 (zero) to the operating system, telling it that everything was ok.
int main(int argc, array(string) argv)
{
string cmd;
while(cmd=Stdio.Readline()->read("Command: "))
{
string args;
sscanf(cmd,"%s %s",cmd,args);
switch(cmd)
{
case "list":
if((int)args)
{
show_record((int)args);
} else {
list_records();
}
break;
case "quit":
exit(0);
case "add":
add_record();
break;
}
}
}
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