Constrain program to 1-99 parties
- Dominant language
- C++
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Description
Currently, the program allows the user to tally for one party by default by just running:
```
./tally
```
and then entering `1` for each tally for that party. However, it also supports entering an argument of the number of parties, such as:
```
./tally 3
```
and then entering values `1` or `2` or `3` to tally for those respective parties.
**However** we want to constrain this argument so that any value given for `argv` that is provided that is *outside* of the range **1 to 99**, instead of running the tallying process, it should just print the error message:
```
usage: ./tally []
- number of parties to tally (1-99). Default = 1.
```
and then terminate the program.
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Research direction
Start at the program entry point that reads argv and trace how the party count is parsed before tallying begins. Check the existing ./tally and ./tally 3 behavior, then verify that values below 1 or above 99 print the specified usage message and terminate without tallying.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 68/100