Thanks. I was afraid that was the case.
Dave
Richard Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>
> You are switching on the address of a string. If you where to do switch
> (*string) you would switch on the first character in the string. You cant
> (as far as Im aware) switch on a whole string, you would have to use
string
> compare code as C cannot do string comparisons without using libs.
>
> Rik
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Leland [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 13 February 2001 16:00
> > To: Palm Developer Forum
> > Subject: switch/case question
> >
> > I'm sorry to ask such a basic C question but my reference books are all
at
> > home. Why doesn't the following work.
> >
> > Char * string;
> > .
> > . // string copy here
> > .
> > switch(string)
> > {
> > case 'Some value':
> > // do something here
> > break;
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > }
> >
> > I receive the following compile error
> >
> > Error : illegal operand 'char *'
> > PlugIn.c line 718 switch(string)
> >
> > Error : illegal character constant
> > PlugIn.c line 720 case 'Some value':
> >
> > It appears that switch/case only allow 1 character. Is there another
form
> > of switch/case (other than using "if") for string values?
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
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