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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!blkbox!collins
- From: collins@blkbox (Chad R. Collins)
- Subject: Re: Goto [variable] in C++ ?
- Organization: The Black Box, PO Box 591822 Houston, TX 77259-1822
- Distribution: rec.games.programmer
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 04:03:59 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.040359.28909@blkbox>
- References: <1992Dec28.144429.1427@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
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- kinsman@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Aphoriel/Kinsman) writes:
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- >This is a question from someone new to C...
-
- >How could I set up C code so that a program goes to a function where the name
- >of the function is placed in a string variable? The specific use I'm thinking
- >of is for an adventure game, where the function the parser calls depends on
- >the verb the player used in typing in his command.. I could set it up as:
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- >-If verb_parsed is 'eat' then call eat_function
- >-If verb_parsed is 'give' then call give_function
-
- >and so forth, but this is awful... How could I write it in C to look like:
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- >-Go to [verb_parsed + string_holding_parameter_characters]
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- >Like that.
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- >Thanks in advance,
- >-Sean Givan / Aphoriel/Kinsman
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- Well, I don't know the specifics of what you are doing, but you might
- want to look into the switch/case statements....
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- Chad R. Collins
- collins@blkbox.com
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