What's an alternative to using switch in C++?

[watdahel]

What's an alternative to using a switch structure to represent my data file? Basically, I have a function that receives a string and checks too see if it's in the table and then returns another string that corresponds to it. I was gonna use a switch structure to do the look-up but I found out that the case values can't use string values.

 

[stndn]

how about if/else if/else?
if (! strcmp (var1, var2)) { }
else if ...
else if ...
else ...

 

[tinyabs]

char *Lookup(char *sz)
{
for (int i = 0; i < TABLE_SIZE; i++)
if (strcmp(keys, sz) != 0)
return values;
}

will this do?
You can also use a STL classes like map.

 

[TerryMathews]

@OP: You can quickly implement a swtich function that will work with strings using the STL

Relatively complete walkthrough

 

[tinyabs]

Originally posted by: TerryMathews
@OP: You can quickly implement a swtich function that will work with strings using the STL

Relatively complete walkthrough

You could hash the string too.