Jerry Eckert writes:
> Is there a more elegant way to do the equivalent of a switch statement for a
> character string value than a chain of if (strcmp())... else if
> (strcmp())... else if.... ?
Not really. You say "elegant", and to me that rules out most
nontrivial hacks that allow you to use a switch statement with a
string.
In C++ you might be able to make things a little bit
prettier, but you still can't really use a switch statement.
> What I tried to do was
>
> switch (char-var) {
> case "string1":
> ...
> }
Loosely speaking, the cases in switch statments need to be integral
constants. A character string in C doesn't really work here.
My advice to you: just use strcmp(). It's straightforard to code and
when you look at the code 6 months from now it'll be very
understandable.
--kevin
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