What exactly does this mean??
Your program must determine the user-specified lower bound and upper bound by using command-line arguments. You will need to use the strtoul() function (from the cstdlib header) to convert command-line arguments to int values.
"User-specified" means you must be able to read "command line arguments" and convert the arguments to integers.
The program will be run with a command similar to: progname lowval highval Then in the code grab lowval & highval (which will be c-strings) and use them.
If it's the use of command line arguments that's giving you pause, here's a couple links with helpful information:
http://malun1.mala.bc.ca:8080/~wesselsd/csci161/notes/args.html
http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/lesson14.html
Textbooks seem to generally ignore this topic.
Val
(Sorry, AD, it's early and I didn't see that your comments included a similar link.)
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