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I have started working on Caesar and I am stuck with how to repromt user for a command line argument incase they input some wrong values.

Here is the code i wrote and I can't find any apparent errors

#include <stdio.h>
#include <cs50.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <ctype.h>

int main (int argc, string argv[])
{
    do
    {
        printf("Usage: ./caesar key");
        return 1;
    }
   while (argc != 2 || !isdigit(argv[1]));
    
}

I am getting the printf message even when the input values are correct. What exactly is going wrong here?

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    So what your looping is doing, is printing "Usage: bla bla" when there's more or less than 2 arguments AND the first digit of the second argument is not a number. If the user input ./caesar 2a -> you have two arguments and the FIRST digit of Argv[1] is a number. Im guessing that this is your mistake – leonardo antunes Oct 5 '20 at 15:46
  • I have 2 queries isn't it saying OR as i am using || and not &&? Also isn't Argv[1] the entire string? so in your example 2a would be the string right? and isdigit would output false as it is not a digit? Am I making some mistake here @leonardoantunes – FoundABetterName Oct 5 '20 at 15:54
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    The first one, i confused the signs. About the second one perhapes this help you -> [ geeksforgeeks.org/isalpha-isdigit-functions-c-example ] – leonardo antunes Oct 6 '20 at 16:35
  • thanks :) @leonardoantunes – FoundABetterName Oct 6 '20 at 18:29
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    you're welcome, good luck with your studies !!! – leonardo antunes Oct 7 '20 at 0:45
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Perhaps a review of the class material on command line arguments is in order?

https://cs50.harvard.edu/x/2020/notes/2/#command-line-arguments

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You can't reprompt a user for command line arguments. You will have to exit the program after printing the usage.

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