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Function with a custom return type and the "false" return conditions?

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I have a function that returns a custom class structure, but how should I handle the cases where I wish to inform the user that the function has failed, as in return false.

My function looks something like this:

Cell CSV::Find(std::string segment) {   Cell result;   // Search code here.   return result; } 

So when succesful, it returns the proper result, but how should I handle the case when it could fail?

I thought about adding a boolean method inside Cell to check what ever Cell.data is empty or not (Cell.IsEmpty()). But am I thinking this issue in a way too complicated way?