Parameter overdrive.....

[DavidKrutsko]

Hey i have a rather wierd question....

say i have a function that compares strings that looks like the following when used in code:

if ((StrComp (some char* here, another char* here)) [.......]

1st param is 1st string and 2nd is what the 1st is being compared to..... if they are the same then true else false....

now i have a group of strings i want to compare and i dont want to write like 7 of those if statmenets or keep repeating the function in that one if statements...

i was wondering if there is a way to squeeze together a bunch of strings in the 2nd param in order to compare it and if any of them are true do something else do something else.... example:

if ((StrComp(CHARA, (CHARB OR CHARC OR CHARD OR etc...))

instead of

if (StrComp (CHARA, CHARB) || StrComp (CHARA, CHARC)) ... etc.

if tried #define groupA (CHARA, CHARB, etc...) but i get a runtime error

P.S. is there a way to increase the number of parameters based on programmers input without actually modifying the code to include like 50 of them with default values?

thanks

DK--

[weaknessforcats]

The customary way to do this is to have an array of strings as a function argument.

There is an old C method that uses an ellipsis argument (...). Here you use the C va_arg macros but you will need another function argument to tell the number of strings. In this case your code would starft to look like that of
printf().