[question] terminate a program?

hey guys,

I made a program, and i want to when i put a specif input the program will stop
example

x=read()
if x==("stahp dude") then
  [some code to terminate a program]
end

i know i could just make a random error apear but that wouldn't look nice.

so i need a piece of code that will terminate a program.

thanks in advance

if you don't supply an error message to the error function it will not display anything so you could do something like this

local input = read()
if input == 'close damn you' then
  term.clear()
  term.setCursorPos(1,1)
  error()
end

using error will exit a program from any level. however other methods are using break to exit an infinite loop, or return to exit a function, or even return to exit the program (when the return is used outside a function)

Thanks for the quick respond!

No problems, read the edit I just made.

hmmm, next problem: I want the program to print a message, and then stop the program….
and I want the message to remain visible

EDIT: figured it out, i just removed the

term.clear()

and it works! thanks a lot

You could have the program close gracefully (by having the program run out of executable code), use error(), or use return.

I, personally, prefer using the first method but it can be difficult to pull off. So I tend to fall back on error().

The problem is i have a 200 line program, and I can't make it run out of code bacause the read() is somewhere in the beginning

thanks that was really helpfull