Re: Switch Case problem
Muhammad Azeem Azam wrote:
i have an array in a function-1 that conatins some string (Data).
i passed this array to a function-2 that has a switch statement;
i too use a for loop to have all Array(i.e data from function-1)
But every time switch reads the first character.
but switch says u can't use string
I need some thing like that
switch (some variable that is an array conating string) // problem is here
{
case 'Command 1':
{
break;
}
case 'Command 2':
{
break;
}
}
Muhammad:
If you have only a few strings, you can just use a series of if-else's.
With a large number, a btter approach is to use a map (e.g std::map) to
map the strings onto integers (or better enum values). Something like
// untested
enum {COMMAND_1 = 1, COMMAND_2, ....} Command;
std::map<std::string, Command> stringMap;
stringMap["Command 1"] = COMMAND_1;
stringmap["Command 2"] = COMMAND_2;
// etc
std::string someString = "Some string";
switch (stringMap[someString])
{
case COMMAND_1:
break;
case COMMAND_2:
break;
default:
break;
}
If you make the map a member variable, you can initialize it in the
constructor.
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