Not directly, but the attacker can figure out where to go next and they might not even need your connection string (imho, if exposed connection string is a problem, you're doing it wrong, plenty of option on whitelisting access from specific machines) if they can just coax your app on running the query for them. A middle road of showing user a generic error message while logging the detail on your DB for reference is a better idea softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/162013/9471 remember, your user don't even care about the trace, you're just making it unecessarily harder for them — Martheen 5 secs ago

Inventing your own "secret macro language" is extremely bad programming. Other C++ programmers know C++. They do not know your secret macro language. So all you achieve is to make the code less readable. — Lundin 37 secs ago

i must add that the same problem happened again but this time i was using visual studio code and it automatically detected that selenium needed to be updated and updated it for me! i highly recomend visual studio code for intermediate programmers. — Talha Tutorials 54 secs ago

this question would fit better in softwareengineering.stackexchange.com — Grzegorz 20 secs ago

I’m voting to close this question because it belongs to softwareengineering.stackexchange.com — Grzegorz 27 secs ago

I think softwareengineering.stackexchange.com is better suited for such questions. — phd 1 min ago

I’m voting to close this question because the question belongs on another site: softwareengineering — Baklap4 41 secs ago

Note: it's just plain cmd.exe, which is (based on) the old MS-DOS command line interpreter and comes with Windows systems. It's not a very good command line interpreter. I don't use Windows but a lot of Windows programmers seem to like Powershell, which apparently is well integrated with Windows. As a Unix/Linux programmer I prefer sh or bash; there's a port of bash to Windows as well. Some versions of it are included with some Windows Git distributions. — torek 22 secs ago

Its actually not good practice to call a function/method and output directly from that function See side effects — RiggsFolly 51 secs ago

You might want to see How to work with legacy code. Since this topic is much wider than just doing documentation. And while UML diagrams can be helpful, I would argue that sensible architecture, good naming and unit tests is much more important. — JonasH 48 secs ago

Professional programmers google stuff all of the time. — mjwills 45 secs ago

@CHINEW I have checked my textbook and searched on the Internet -- The next step is for you to use the debugger to debug your program. Single step through your code with the debugger, and identify where the program diverges from the expected behavior. Then make the appropriate adjustments to the program (or determine that the approach is wrong and needs to be redone). That's how programmers are supposed to work -- if there is an error in their program, they debug the program. — PaulMcKenzie 45 secs ago

Questions that ask "where do I start?" are typically too broad and are not a good fit for this site. People have their own method for approaching the problem and because of this there cannot be a correct answer. Give a good read over Where to Start and edit your post. — gunr2171 23 secs ago

@WilliamPursell I have definitely turned into a crank on this subject, but I firmly believe that the only use for scanf is for beginning programmers to get int values into their programs, so that they can do things like print NxN boxes made of * characters, during the first 2-3 weeks that they're learning C. After that they need to aggressively wean themselves off of all uses of scanf, never to use it again. scanf is square training wheels. But once you're using it for dirt-simple things, it's almost impossible not to get trapped into trying to use it for more complicated things. — Steve Summit 39 secs ago

Aside: Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names. — HABO 31 secs ago

Yes i know its a legal issue, but programmers have probably been asked this before? Also it relates to whether one can flag it as exempt or not. Or provide an annual cert. I have emailed BIS and the NSA. lets see if they reply. i will post the answer then. — AndiAna 59 secs ago

Do you want to use index 1 .. number_of_rows instead of the usual 0 .. (number_of_rows -1)? This could be confusing for C programmers. — Bodo 57 secs ago

See softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/210922/… — Caius Jard 48 secs ago

"as well as I do" - however consider that you yourself do not know the a specific aspect of the language continuously well. Meaning: You learn knew stuff and forgot other stuff. Also: You do not code for the machine, you do not code for yourself, you code for other programmers. (Even if that other programmer is you, but at a different time.) So, in a way the remarks are somewhat valid. Although I feel that your code is (barely) not too clever. — Make42 6 secs ago

Personally prefer the second, pointer notation, especially on answers for new C programmers, since it reinforces that you're passing a pointer and not the array itself — Govind Parmar 34 secs ago

std::getline ewrquires a std::string, not a character array. char name[200]; should become std::string name;, but student programmers seem to have been made to suffer, so you may need to use std::istream::getline because it will accept a character array. `std::cin.getline( name, sizeof(name) ); — user4581301 just now

It's really hard to say what code is or is not relevant to the question when you don't know what the problem is. A common mistake of new programmers is to assume the crash and the bug that cause it are located close together in time or space. This is not the case. Often a bug mortally wounds a program and it staggers on for a while longer, sometimes even months, before you notice the effects somewhere else entirely. This is why the minimal reproducible example is vital. — user4581301 just now

@Grzegorz this question would be even worse fit over there than here. Please abstain of recommending sites you're not familiar with. See What goes on Software Engineering (previously known as Programmers)? A guide for Stack Overflow — gnat just now

Questions that ask "where do I start?" are typically too broad and are not a good fit for this site. People have their own method for approaching the problem and because of this there cannot be a correct answer. Give a good read over Where to Start and edit your post. — gunr2171 42 secs ago

Requests for software recommendations are off-topic. — madreflection 42 secs ago

Possibly: Software Recommendations Stack Exchange — kaylum 5 secs ago

We're helping a newbie with the rules of this platform. Don't ask about software recommendations. They are off topic. — Thomas Sablik 47 secs ago