Hi I got an assignment from my instructor with this exact instruction:
"Your main function should call the function
int getUserOption()
to display the option menu to the user. The function should return an int value indicating the option selected by the user, and the main function should use this value to determine which option to process."
Now I understand that part and how I could go about doing it, but then in another quote
"When the user enters the string QUIT, the program should exit"
I tried asking him if this was a typo or mistake and he said "figure it out". I know you can't use or return strings from an int function and that replying with a string would only catch the first letter. Is there some other way to implement that menu and somehow get a string to pop out, or do you think my instructor just copypasted an old assignment and forgot to change some things?
I'm going ahead and making my menu selection based on a number (i.e: Enter 1 to quit the program, Enter 2 to copy a file...) and then converting that number to a string once it's out of the function later on for clarity. I just wanted to know if there was a way to do what he asked other than my way.
